Minie Ball Pregnancy

According to a Dr. L.G. Capers Jr. during the Civil War, a soldier was shot through the groin area with a minie ball and it then ricocheted and hit a young woman in her abdomen area that he doctored. After the battle, he visited the young lady frequently and just 278 days from the date of the wound he delivered a baby boy. About 3 weeks after the birth, Dr. Capers was called to examine the baby and extracted a mashed and battered minie ball from the child. The doctor claimed that the minie ball was the same one that shattered the soldier’s tibia and went through his groin and into the young woman’s ovary and uterus impregnating her. A museum in Vicksburg points out that if the story is true, this would make the little baby the world’s one and only, “son of a gun”.

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