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A Soldier's Fight:
Dear brother and sister
I sent myself behind a bluff to protect me from the Yankee bums that have been a whirling a round us in grand stile this morning.
-- Cpl. Milton Berrett, 3rd Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, Wofford's Brigade
The winding roads were full of lost staff-officers. The commander of a regiment rarely saw both flanks of his command at once. Even companies became broken in the thickets, and taking different directions were lost to each other.
-- Lt. Albion W. Tourgee, 105th Ohio Infantry, J. [???] King's Brigade
Bang go the rebel guns and whiz and screech go the shells over and around us... The smoke so utterly obscured us from the Enemy that he could not aim with any precision, otherwise we would have suffered more...
-- Sgt. Maj. Levi A. Ross, 86th Illinois Infantry, McCook's Brigade
We advanced slowly, repeating "Surrender, boys, we've got you." Our opponents finally began lowering their guns, which we took and three behind us. Then at once we became friends and began a frenzied trading of tobacco for coffee.
-- Pvt. [???] 54th Virginia Infantry, Trigg's Brigade
There was but fore men in our Company when we Quit fighting asunday evening. There was about fiftey houls shot through our flag.
-- Pvt. Benjamin Mabrey, 82nd Indiana Infantry, Connell's Brigade |