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The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1861., [Electronic resource] 7 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sad and Fatal accident. (search)
dent. -- Second Sergeant Charles H. Chapman, of the Slatter (La.) Guards, was accidentally shot and killed by private Philip Sweeny, of the company, at their rendezvous in New Orleans, on the 21st inst. It appears that private Sweeny was cleaninSweeny was cleaning his musket, and Sergeant Chapman was standing by conversing with Sweeny and another man. Sweeny, in the act of rising from the seat where he was sitting, dropped his pistol from his belt. Its dropping upon the floor exploded the cap and the ball pSweeny and another man. Sweeny, in the act of rising from the seat where he was sitting, dropped his pistol from his belt. Its dropping upon the floor exploded the cap and the ball passed through Sergeant Chapman's wrist and into his left breast, entering the heart. He died almost instantly. Sweeny, in the act of rising from the seat where he was sitting, dropped his pistol from his belt. Its dropping upon the floor exploded the cap and the ball passed through Sergeant Chapman's wrist and into his left breast, entering the heart. He died almost instantly.