Battlefield Dead

[M E Wolf]

Dear Blockaderunner and List Members;

I am of the understanding, that it takes approximately one day for a body to start decomposing. It takes approximately 72 hours for the body's gases to start bloating the body and distorts the face and the skin turn black.

Again, the weather conditions, the ground's conditions and position has a lot to do with the rate of decomposition.

This is further confirmed by the DVD Gettysburg and Stories of Valor Narrated by Keith Carradine; under the section called: Mystery at Devil's Den. It goes into the 'staged' bodies at Devil's Den and the mystery around these bodies who had not appeared as the bodies that Brady, etc; and other photographers had taken upon coming to a battlefield. It gives similiar information.

Sincerely,
M. E. Wolf