. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . mortallywounded, and cheering theMajor up, told him he wouldsend him across the river andhome to his parents in NewYork City, which was time that winter the doc-tor was writing a letter when arap came on the tent pole andcalling out Come in, whoshould appear but Major Healy ; he was more than agreeablysurprised to find him alive. Why, Major, old boy, how did youmanage to survive? Haley remarked it wasnt such a badwound after all. When I got home and wa
. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . mortallywounded, and cheering theMajor up, told him he wouldsend him across the river andhome to his parents in NewYork City, which was time that winter the doc-tor was writing a letter when arap came on the tent pole andcalling out Come in, whoshould appear but Major Healy ; he was more than agreeablysurprised to find him alive. Why, Major, old boy, how did youmanage to survive? Haley remarked it wasnt such a badwound after all. When I got home and was carried to bed, theold family doctor was called in, and of course started to exam-ine me, but I was so sore and swelled up that I kicked aboutbeing turned over, but he would have his own way andturning me over he found that the ball had passed entirelyaround me, coming out at the point of entrance, it could beplainly traced by the line of inflammation. Dr. Roller was amost noted surgeon in the field during the entire war. He diedin 1900, at Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Major Healy servedthe war out and resides in Illi; \LI) MeCORKILL,Co. D. PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 145 One of the boys of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania, tellsthis story of Pat Hickey of Company F. They were chumsat home, and when under fire Pat always covered him in theranks. At Fredericksburg they were both wounded, no doubtby the same ball, one in the head, the other in the left the way back to the rear, assisted by Billy Craig, theystruck a double ambulance. Putting the other fellow into it,Craig bid them good-bye and crawled back to his place in thecompany, as the enemy was at this time sweeping the groundwith his batteries. Just then a shell passing near the ambu-lance, frightened the driver, and jumping off, away went theteam. Hickey with his one arm tried to check them and find-ing it was no use, got out on the step and catching his chumswaist-band jumped off and out he came, s
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