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was discovered that it had passed completely through. His death must have been instantaneous. Twenty-five others of the rebel dead lay along the inside of the breastworks, while several fresh graves marked the places where others had been interred. A shell burst directly over Colonel Gooding's head about four o'clock on Monday afternoon, scattering the pieces in every direction. Another time a shower of grape whistled on all sides of him. While riding across the field with Captain Fordham, his Assistant Adjutant-General, a little later, a round shot struck the ground some distance ahead, ricochetted again and again in a direct line, and rolled harmlessly at their horses' feet. A young rebel, about eighteen years of age, belonging to the Eighteenth Louisiana, was about sundown shot through the stomach and taken prisoner. He asked Lieutenant Bailey for a drink of water. When given to him he thanked him very kindly, prayed that God would bless and prosper him. He said