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Excerpt from The Bivouac, Vol. 1 of 3: Or Stories of the Peninsular War
IT was soon after the affair of New Ross that I obtained leave of absence from the general of the district, and repaired to the metropolis. I had been wounded by a rebel from a window with a slug; and though it traversed the bone with out causing any injury, yet from the eccentric direction it had taken, an experienced practitioner was required to discover and extract it.
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