An Incident.
— In one of the fights before Atlanta, a rebel soldier, of large size, evidently a
young man, was mortally wounded in top of the head, so that the brains partially exuded. He
lived
three days, lying on his back on the spot where he first dropt. He dug with his heel in the ground
during that time a hole big enough to put in a couple of ordinary knapsacks. He just lay there in
the open air, and with little intermission kept his heel going night and day. Some of our soldiers
then moved him to a house, but he died in a few minutes.
