. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . GENERAL FITZ JOHN PORTERS HEADQUARTERS IN THE WESTOVER MANSION. CAMP AT HARRISON SLANDING, JCLY, 1862. FROM A WAR-TIME SKETCH. It was something fearful and sad to contemplate; few steps could be takenwithout trampling upon the body of a dead or wounded soldier, or withouthearing a piteous cry, begging our party to be careful. In some places thebodies were in continuous lines and in heaps. In Mexico I had seen fields ofbattle on which our armies had been victorious, and had listene
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . GENERAL FITZ JOHN PORTERS HEADQUARTERS IN THE WESTOVER MANSION. CAMP AT HARRISON SLANDING, JCLY, 1862. FROM A WAR-TIME SKETCH. It was something fearful and sad to contemplate; few steps could be takenwithout trampling upon the body of a dead or wounded soldier, or withouthearing a piteous cry, begging our party to be careful. In some places thebodies were in continuous lines and in heaps. In Mexico I had seen fields ofbattle on which our armies had been victorious, and had listened to pitifulappeals; but the pleaders were not of my countrymen then, and did not, asnow, cause me to deplore the effects of a fratricidal war. Sadder still were the trying scenes I met in and around the Malvern house,which at an early hour that day had been given up to the wounded, and wassoon filled with our unfortunate men, suffering from all kinds of night, after issuing orders for the withdrawal of our troops, I passedthrough the building and the adjoining hospitals with my senior medicaloffice
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