...and, glancing back into the engine-room, seemed to bound after the men, as one of the engineers said, like a wild beast pursuing its prey. I have preserved this ball as a souvenir of the fight at Fort Donelson . When it burst through the side of the Carondelet, it knocked down and wounded a dozen men, seven of them severely. An immense quantity of splinters was blown through the vessel. Some of them, ...