About three weeks after this remarkable birth Dr.Capers was called to see the infant, and the grandmother insisted that there was something wrong with the child's genitals.

Examination showed a rough, swollen, and sensitive scrotum, containing some hard substance.

He operated, and extracted a smashed and battered minie-ball.

The doctor, after some meditation, theorized in this manner: He concluded that this was the same ball that had carried away the testicle of his young friend, that had penetrated the ovary of the young lady, and, with some spermatozoa upon it, had impregnated her.

With this conviction he approached the young man and told him the circumstances; the soldier appeared skeptical at first, but consented to visit the young mother; a friendship ensued which soon ripened into a happy marriage, and the pair had three children, none resembling, in the same degree as the first, the heroic pater familias.
Interesting as are all the anomalies of conception, none are more so than those of unconscious impregnation; and some well-authenticated cases can be mentioned.