Eyewittness Quotes
"We were finally however ordered to lie down in a cornfield and stray shot and shell began to whiz over our heads and burst aroiund us."
-A Union Soldier
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"What a bloody place was that sunken road as we advanced..."
-Lt. Colonel James Fillebrown, 10th Maine Infantry, 12th Corps
Letter to his wife, Sept. 19, 1862
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"Battle oh horrid battle. What sights I have seen now see around me. I am Wounded! And am afraid shall be again as shells fly past me every few seconds carrying away limbs from trees and scattering limbs around. Am in severe pain."
-Charles A. Hale, 5th New Hampshire Infantry, 2nd Corps
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-A Union Soldier
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"What a bloody place was that sunken road as we advanced..."
-Lt. Colonel James Fillebrown, 10th Maine Infantry, 12th Corps
Letter to his wife, Sept. 19, 1862
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"Battle oh horrid battle. What sights I have seen now see around me. I am Wounded! And am afraid shall be again as shells fly past me every few seconds carrying away limbs from trees and scattering limbs around. Am in severe pain."
-Charles A. Hale, 5th New Hampshire Infantry, 2nd Corps
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