Hillsborough (NC) Recorder

July 31, 1861

Page 3

 

����������� One of the most interesting incidents of the battle is presented in the case of Lieut. W. P. Magnum, son of ex-Senator Magnum, of N. C.� This young man was attached to Company B of Col. Fisher�s Regiment, I believe, and owes the preservation of his life to a copy of a Bible presented him by his sister.� He had the good book in his left coat pocket.� It was struck by a ball near the edge, but the book changed the direction of the bullet, and it glanced off, inflicting a severe, but not dangerous flesh wound.� The book was saturated with blood, but the advice written on a fly leaf by the sister who gave it, was perfectly legible.� It read thus: �To my brother.� He will read a portion of this blessed word every day, and remember his sister.�

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[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]