. War from the inside; or, Personal experiences, impressions, and reminiscences of one of the "boys" in the war of the rebellion . ess of thefire of our men. The position was an alluring one: the road was cutinto the hill about waist high, and seemed to offer secureprotection to a line of infantry, and so no doubt this linewas posted there to hold the knoll and this Sharpsburgroad. It proved, however, nothing but a death-trap, foronce our line got into position on the top of this crescent-shaped ridge we could reach them by a direct fire on thecentre and a double flanking fire at the right and
. War from the inside; or, Personal experiences, impressions, and reminiscences of one of the "boys" in the war of the rebellion . ess of thefire of our men. The position was an alluring one: the road was cutinto the hill about waist high, and seemed to offer secureprotection to a line of infantry, and so no doubt this linewas posted there to hold the knoll and this Sharpsburgroad. It proved, however, nothing but a death-trap, foronce our line got into position on the top of this crescent-shaped ridge we could reach them by a direct fire on thecentre and a double flanking fire at the right and left ofthe line, and only about one hundred yards away. Withnothing but an open field behind them there was abso-lutely no escape, nothing but death or surrender, and theyevidently chose the former, for we saw no white flag dis-played. We could now understand the remark of theirlieutenant-colonel, whom our boys brought in, as alreadymentioned: You have killed all my poor boys. Theylie there in the road. I learned later that the few sur-vivors of this regiment were sent South to guard rebelprisoners. * Probably the 6th SECTION OF FAMOUS SUNKEN ROAD IN FRONT OF LINE OF I32D P. V., NEAR ROULETTE LANE The dead are probably from the Sixth Georgia Confederate troops The Battle of Antietam The Hnes of battle of both armies were not only markedby the presence of the dead, but by a vast variety of armyequipage, such as blankets, canteens, haversacks, guns,gun-slings, bayonets, ramrods, some whole, others broken,—verily, a besom of destruction had done its work faith-fully here. Dead horses were everywhere, and the stenchfrom them and the human dead was horrible. UncleBilly Sherman has said, War is hell! yet this definition,with all that imagination can picture, fails to reveal all itsbloody horrors. The positions of some of the dead were very poor fellow lay face down on a partially fallen stonewall, with one arm and one foot extended, as if in the actof crawling
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