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The battle left huge swaths of forest scarred by bullets, artillery shells, and fire. The evidence of battle was still visible decades after the war.
"Just a little to the rear of where our line was formed, where the bullets swept close to the ground, every bush and twig was cut and splintered by the leaden balls. The woods was a dense thicket of small trees about the size of hop poles, and ... along the whole length of the line I doubt if a single tree could have been found that had not been pierced several times with bullets, and all were hit about breast high. Had the rebels fired a little lower, they would have annihilated the whole line; they nearly did it as it was."
-- Private Wilbur Fisk, 2nd Vermont Infantry |