A strange and blighted land : Gettysburg : the aftermath of a battle
This volume covers the more dismal side of the Gettysburg campaign: burials of Union and Confederate corpses, removal of the 3,000 horses killed, care of the wounded, descriptions of field hospitals, disposition of POWs, cleanup of the battle ground, collection of weapons, early relic hunters, battl...
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Gettysburg, PA :
Thomas Publications,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- No tongue can depict the carnage : the battlefield in the aftermath
- A long black shadow : the burial of the dead
- A great rushing river of agony : the care of the wounded
- The woods are full of them : prisoners of war, stragglers, and deserters
- The sacred sod : from battlefield to hallowed ground.