To augment his meager pension he sold a pamphlet
containing in detail an account of his injuries and a description
of the skilfully devised apparatus by which his declining life
was made endurable. A somewhat similar case is mentioned on page
585.
A most remarkable case of a soldier suffering numerous and almost
incredible injuries and recovering and pursuing his vocation with
undampened ardor is that of Jacques Roellinger, Company B, 47th
New York Volunteers. He appeared before a pension board in New
York, June 29, 1865, with the following history: In 1862 he
suffered a sabre-cut across the quadriceps extensor of the left
thigh, and a sabre-thrust between the bones of the forearm at the
middle third. Soon afterward at Williamsburg, Va., he was shot in
the thigh, the ball passing through the middle third external to
the femur. At Fort Wagner, 1863, he had a sword-cut, severing the
spinal muscles and overlying tissue for a distance of six inches.
Subsequently he was captured by guerillas in Missouri and
tortured by burning splinters of wood, the cicatrices of which he
exhibited; he escaped to Florida, where he was struck by a
fragment of an exploding shell, which passed from without inward,
behind the hamstring on the right leg, and remained embedded and
could be plainly felt.
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