The Daily Dispatch: June 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], Casualty.

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Casualty.

--A very serious casualty occurred on Sunday last at Camp Wyatt, near Wilmington, N. C. These Journal gives the following account of it.

Some soldiers had of a shell which the Yankee gunboats had thrown on the beach in their late demonstration in that neighborhood, and after having brushed off the mud or sand had it down amongst; them, when another soldier came up and dropped a coal of fire on the fuse, which caused the shell to explode in their midst.--live of those present were wounded mortally, four seriously, and three slightly. This thing ought to be a warning to our men of the danger of tooling with unexploded shells, if anything be of any use as a lesson in this way.--Men seem anxious to be killed by what can hardly be called an accident, for surely anybody ought to have known the result of potting a coal of fire on the fuse of an unexploded shell.

The Daily Dispatch: June 5, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. June 5, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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