Minnie Ball Wounds

-A pondont writing from JSlanassas to a Memphia paper, aays: " I, also learn from ono oí our surfreons that tho wouoded prisoDori taken ty our arniy aro not bv lar so liurt as th# majnrity of our men. Most oí niir woucda ure frojtn Minnio baüs, wbii'h have made great ghastiy openings. and lrequonily gone en'.irely through tha body - wln!e those npoD tho ensmy nre with rouud baila, whoaa efíocts have b.con k:-a fatal."