Union soldier is super annoyed when his head is smacked by a reduced-speed bullet, tries to get revenge with a decidedly high-speed bullet.

[**The following is from the Civil War diary of Samuel Clear, a Union soldier.**] >*Monday, June 20* >We are still on Picket. Alexander Chisholm and I were in one hole, he was asleep or at least his eyes were shut, a Reb minie ball struck him in the head and it waked him in short order. It was a spent ball having come through the clay flanks of our pit. He d-----------m’d [**said ‘damn’**] a little and then got his gun and popped away all day at the reb who was behind sand bags up the railroad track. Alex was determined to kill the Son of a B--------. _______________________ **Source:** Chisholm, Daniel, et al. “Diary.” *The Civil War Notebook of Daniel Chisholm: A Chronicle of Daily Life in the Union Army, 1864-1865*. Ballantine Books, 1990. 24. Print. _______________________ **Further Reading:** [Minié ball](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini%C3%A9_ball)