. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . th. The dead were liter-ally roasting at our feet as they would burst from the confines of theirburned-up uniforms, ghastly and sickening. It was necessary we should gothrough this forest in order to reach a certain point on the new line. Theearth was like the bed of a furnace, and showers of sparks fell upon us like 538 THE STORY t)F rain. Blinding smoke caused our eyes to smart and weep, and it was withthe greatest difiiculty that we co
. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . th. The dead were liter-ally roasting at our feet as they would burst from the confines of theirburned-up uniforms, ghastly and sickening. It was necessary we should gothrough this forest in order to reach a certain point on the new line. Theearth was like the bed of a furnace, and showers of sparks fell upon us like 538 THE STORY t)F rain. Blinding smoke caused our eyes to smart and weep, and it was withthe greatest difiiculty that we could move on. Once we were halted and• closed up and a foolish order given to stack arms. w^hich resulted in thebutts of our guns igniting, and we, to our consternation, discovered that thesoles were being drawn from our shoes, by the hot ashes upon which we werestanding. All about us was a seething and charred scene, as forbidding andas suggestive as Dore or Nast could pencil it. Huge trees blasted by cannonballs, and saplings which had escaped the flames, were gouged and strippedof their bark. Tall pines smoked and smouldered, and their fatty knots. MARcniNo Through Fiiii:. blazed up taper-like, and here and there bullets wliicli had imbedded them-selves in the timber, were melting away and i-nnning down the blackenedtrunks as melteth a candle away. Streaming with perspiration and wellnigh robbed of our eyesight, we emerged from the smoke and flames andsoon found relief in the open country as we neared Alsops farm, where Gen-eral Warren was engaging the enemy under Anderson. Itwasthelturning of this woods that lost to (irant the possession of Spott-sylvania Court House, for General Anderson, now commanding AMERICAN HEROISM. 539 corps, had been ordered bylJeneral Lee to Spottsylvania Court House, but tind-iug the woods ablaze in the neighborhood of Todds tavern, where he intendedto bivouac, continued his march, and by this accident reached SpottsylvaniaCourt Hous
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