Show PERHAPS THE most destructive work made by a shell among troops occurred oc-curred f few miles below Vicksburg A federal gunboat was fired upon by light artillery from the bank pouted in plain view There were two 6 poundere working close together and each bad fired a shot when the gunboat gun-boat opened with a 6ipounder The shell struck between the two guns and exploded The guns were thrown high in the air and came down a wreck The eighteen men around them were killed outright and fifteen others who had been lying under swaw vitaVier t nn imf an fhn oaitann VW ht w exploded Of the fifteen eleven wero killed outrightthree woundedand one escaped unhurt but so dazed that he eat down and waited to be captured by a boat which pulled ashore Two of the wounded died tho next day leaving only two men alive of the thirtythree who had composed the battalion Nothing was left of the gun carriage but splinter splin-ter and the guns themselves were terribly gns The only part of the caisson that could be found wag the hub of one wheel filled wIth broken spokes Most of the dead had been blown to fragment and the bushes were covered with shreds of flesh When the caisson exploded i the head of one of the victims was blown high in the air and fell into the water within a few yards of the gunboat |