Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1892 — Senator Gordon’s Severe Wound. [ARTICLE]

Senator Gordon’s Severe Wound.

In speaking about a wound received in the cheek at the battle of Sharpsburg Senator Gordon not long ago told a curious story which illustrates a feature of his character which will come into play during'his Senatorial career. It is the fact that Gordon never loses his head, and that he can think under any circumstances. Said Gen. Gordon:

“While I lay there wounded on the field my mind went through a curious process of reasoning. I thought I had been struck by a cannon ball, and I said to myself: ‘I have been struck in the head with a six-pound solid shot. It has carried away my head. I can feel that there is a little piece of the skull left on the left side. But my brains must be gone entirely. Therefore lam dead. And yet lam thinking. And how can a man think with his head shot off? And, if lam thinking, I cannot be dead. And yet no man can live*after his head is shot off. Still, I may have consciousness after I am dead, but my body cannot have action. Mow, if I can lift my leg then it must be that I am alive. I will try that. Can I? Yes, I can. I see it rising. lam not dead, after all.’ And with that I woke up and found that my head was still -on, but I reasoned as philosophically and logically over the matter as though I was in my office.”—Pittsburg Dispatch.