"Musket ball" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and the posts on the St. John's, which were poorly equipped with ordnance and quartermaster's stores. He also sent a six-pounder cannon with necessary equipments of grape, canister, and round shot, ten thousand rounds of musket ball and buckshot cartridges, and a general supply of needful articles. Further supplies were drawn on ...
— General Scott • General Marcus J. Wright
... are incredible tales told in the encyclopaedias, returned Elnathan, though I cannot say that I have ever seen, myself, anything larger than a musket ball extracted. ...
— The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper
... wounds in the boat a few hours previously, so Villari, the mate, told me. Marston, who had been shot in the neck, was unconscious, and his wife who, as you saw, is little more than a girl, was herself wounded in the arm by a musket ball. ...
— John Frewen, South Sea Whaler - 1904 • Louis Becke
... again showed themselves: Dr. Priest joined Mr. Theodore Bartley, and the remaining soldiers; unfortunately, his clothing being partly white, enabled the robbers to take aim. His horse was shot dead: he himself received a musket ball, which wounded him above his knee; and refusing to submit to amputation he lost ...
— The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2) • John West
... of the Fifteenth Regiment at the disastrous battle of Ball's Bluff, where he was struck by a musket ball, which was intercepted by a metallic button which saved his life. His conduct on that day received high encomium from General McClellan. He was soon after appointed a Brigadier-General of Volunteers, and ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar |
