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Author: vikkihenry
Surnames: Caldwell McCall
Classification: biography
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Carries the Bullet With Him
While Lieutenant F.A. McCall of company D, First Idaho volunteers, was leading his company
in the charge to dislodge the Filipinos at Santa Ana, near Manila, February 5, he caught a
Mauser bullet in the right arm at its juncture with the shoulder, which was deflected
downward, and now rests imbedded in the lumbar muscles of the back. This bullet had killed
Corporal Frank Caldwell before it struck Lieutenant McCall, who was stricken helpless, and
had to be taken to the hospital. After being six weeks there he was sent to San Francisco,
where an X-ray photograph was taken to determine the course and location of the bullet,
whose mysterious presence had so long disabled its owner. He then came to Ord, Neb., the
home of his parents, and last week to Omaha, preparatory to going back to San Francisco.
He has been advised to never have the bullet disturbed, as it will eventually become
encysted, and will do no harm.
Sunday World-Herald (Omaha newspaper)
June 11, 1899
No relation!
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