. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . ere placing their batteries, they were annoyedby sharpshooters,and General Sedgwick was killed. Hisdeath was a great loss to the Federals, just as Jack-sons had crippled the Confederacy. During the firstday at Spottsylvania the Federals lost fully 10,000men, while the Confederates loss was very nearly9,000. The unburied bodies of 3,000 men lay scat-tered along the slopes of the ridges and under thetrees. Out of the 200,000 Federals and Confederateswho rushed into battle on the fifth of May, 43,000were
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . ere placing their batteries, they were annoyedby sharpshooters,and General Sedgwick was killed. Hisdeath was a great loss to the Federals, just as Jack-sons had crippled the Confederacy. During the firstday at Spottsylvania the Federals lost fully 10,000men, while the Confederates loss was very nearly9,000. The unburied bodies of 3,000 men lay scat-tered along the slopes of the ridges and under thetrees. Out of the 200,000 Federals and Confederateswho rushed into battle on the fifth of May, 43,000were either dead, wounded, or prisoners, after threedays of fighting. During the week the fighting ex-tended along the Fredericksburg road, Laurel Hilland Ny River, reaching to Swift Creek and CloydsMountain. The Army of the Potomac, since it crossedthe Rapidan River, had lost nearly one-fourth ofits men in the brief space of eight days, and now hada fighting force of only 87,000. The photograph ofthe Confederate dead was taken near SpottsylvaniaCourt House, May 12, 1864, after Ewells SLING CART USED IN HAULING CAPTURED CONFEDERATE ARTILLERYAT DREWRY^S BLUFF ON THE JAMES RIVER IN 1864
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