Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1913 — HEAD PIERCED BY A BULLET [ARTICLE]

HEAD PIERCED BY A BULLET

Though Thought to Be Mortally Wounded James Buggie of Chicago Lives to Tell of War, James Buggie, who is the assistant custodian at Chicago headquarters of the Grand Army, stopped three Confederate bullets before he had reached the age of sixteen. The last cue nearly brought about the close of his young career. "I enlisted in November, 1882,” he said, “and I was not fifteen years until December 22. I was under fire less than a month after I had been mustered Into the service. My regiment, the Sixty-fourth Illinois, was at Decatur, Ala., in March and April, and then went into the Atlanta campaign. I was wounded first at Reseca, again at Kenesaw mountain and again at Atlanta. A ball struck me In the forehead, went through ffiy head, blinding one eye and Injuring the other, and came out behind the right ear. It broke both jawbones, too. "The battle of Kenesaw mountain was the hardest I was in. Our company went Into it with thirty-six men and came out with five, and they were all wounded. We bad to climb a steep slope. In .that battle General McPherson was shot by some men in ambush. We caught them and took from the knapsack of one of them the field glasses and private papers he had taken from the general’s body,” ' ! 2. c 1