Identifier: bluegrayorcivilw00whit (find matches)
Title: The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: White, Annie Randall
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Publisher: (S.l. : s.n.)
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE.298 AFTER THE BATTLE. 299 Here a dead mans face, caught by the flames, was scorchedand disfigured so that his dearest friend could not have recog-nized him. Near him lay a living soldier with bloodshot eyesand aching wounds, terror written on his features—terror born,not from the fortunes of battle, not of the foe whom he hasmet face to face, but terror of the black night, the loneliness,the awful thought that the dead are all around him, a somberscene lit up by the fire that seizes some helpless one, neverreleasing him until he has lost the semblance of a man, and isonly a charred fragment. That night was a fearful reality to many. Its horrors cannever be told, for those best able to repeat the story, perishedwhere they lay. Details were sent out by the Federals afterJacksons advance had been checked, to save the victims in theburning forest, and heroically they worked, but alas, they couldnot reach half of the wounded. At the foot of an oak whose lofty h

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