During the fight at Manassas, says one of our most respectable exchanges, one of the Tiger Zouaves, belonging to Wheat’s battalion, while skirmishing with the Sixty-Ninth Regiment of New York in the morning, drew up his rifle and fired. Just as he was withdrawing his piece from his shoulder, a ball from the enemy entered the muzzle, and penetrated to the depth of an inch and a half, splitting the barrel to that extent, and lodging so firmly that the Tiger was compelled to bore the ball out. Many a brave fellow would like to have caught the bullets of the enemy in the same way.
New Orleans Daily Crescent, New Orleans, LA