Mississippi: First in artificial insemination?

As a Southerner, you grow up peppered with strange and amazing stories of the gloried Civil War. Although most of the world's population believes the war to have been fought for one reason only: the push and shove over the policy of slavery. Of course it is not that simple, considering the South's pride in maintaining state's rights. Still though, most of the information I have on the war has been gathered in bits from books and childhood visits to places like Vicksburg, where they're more than willing to share with you their own interpretations of that most bloody and shadowy war that forever changed the perceptions of the faces of Southerners.
But that is not what this story is about, it is merely a pretext to begin a strange and wonderful true story that I first heard in a museum in Vickburg in 1986 when I was in 6th grade. Just today I ran across it again and had to share it with you! This fascinating story ran in the "American Medical Weekly" on November 7, 1874 and was then published in a prestigious British medical journal, "The Lancet." (Which sounds menacing, doesn't it?!) Dr. L.G. Capers of Vicksburg, MS, experienced this most amazing incident during the late Civil War. A mother and her two intensely patriotic daughters, ages 15 and 17, were more than willing to care for the Confederate soldiers wounded in a battle on May 12, 1863. On the scene a young Confederate, known for his gallent and noble nature, let out a yell and fell to the ground. Nearby, the older daughter on the scene to care for the wounded let out a scream. Dr. Capers examined this soldier and found that a bullet had penetrated his scrotum and carried with it his left testicle. This SAME bullet had entered the abdomen of the young lady between her belly button and front hipbone and was trapped there. After successful treatment for peritonitis, she miraculously gave birth to a beautiful baby boy 278 days after she was wounded by the stray bullet. Of course her family was mortified, and she begged her loved ones to trust in her innocence and virginity. Three weeks after the birth, the good doctor responded to a call from the family about a defect with the baby's genitals. Upon examination the doctor noticed a swollen and painful scrotum containing some hard substance. In an operation on the boy, Dr. Capers extracted a battered bullet! This determined bullet that carried away the soldier's testicle had pierced the ovary of the patriotic young lady, so eager to care for the wounded, and impregnated her! The doctor went directly to the young man, the father of this miracle child, and shared with him the news of his fatherhood. Naturally skeptical at first, the soldier met with the new mother and a friendship and subsequent marriage enused, which produced two more children. The latter two children were conceived by the traditional method! The moral of the story? Flying testicles are the answer to infertility! OR: If you are a believer in fate, this would make a powerful and convincing argument in your favor!