. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . e brought into use. It was almost ahand-to-hand combat in the heavy forest and tangled sound of battle gradually subsided, then ceased except forthe intermittent reports of small arms, and the second daysfight was over. The Confederate forces withdrew toward Richmond. TheFederal troops could now occupy without molestation the posi-tions they held the previous morning. The forest paths werestrewn with the dead and the dying. IMany of the woundedAvere comp
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . e brought into use. It was almost ahand-to-hand combat in the heavy forest and tangled sound of battle gradually subsided, then ceased except forthe intermittent reports of small arms, and the second daysfight was over. The Confederate forces withdrew toward Richmond. TheFederal troops could now occupy without molestation the posi-tions they held the previous morning. The forest paths werestrewn with the dead and the dying. IMany of the woundedAvere compelled to lie under the scorching sun for hours beforehelp reached them. Every farmhouse became an improvisedhospital where the sufiering soldiers lay. Many were placedupon cars and taken across the Chickahominy. The deadhorses were burned. The dead soldiers, blue and gray, foundsometimes lying within a few feet of each other, were buriedon the field of battle. The two giants had met in their firstgreat combat and were even now beginning to gird up theirloins for a desperate struggle before the capital of the fA yfK ^2> [300] =k*^
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