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Not necessarily, as a corporal, he might have been pressed into a file closers role or he might have been with the third of McClellan's army that didn't fight and was looking for friends from same state regiments that did.He is too clean. The rest of the painting I like very much, but he is too clean to have just fought in clouds of smoke on a humid day.
Where is that? It's a beautiful sculpture and quote.View attachment 103373 This one sculpture has always hit home with me. Very touching. Thank you for posting.
I'm actually having a hard time remembering. I believe I took it at the museum at the Chancollorsville battlefield which is located just minutes from the location known as the Wilderness. If I remember correctly on May 10, 1864 Grant and Lee squared off. Fires in the brush consumed the wounded. It was close quarters fighting. Horrible by all definitions of war. After the carnage the survivors simply sat on the ground and wailed like children. Think about that!Where is that? It's a beautiful sculpture and quote.
I believe it. I just finished the section that dealt with that battle in the Lewis/Catton Grant trilogy. It sounded like Hell on Earth.I'm actually having a hard time remembering. I believe I took it at the museum at the Chancollorsville battlefield which is located just minutes from the location know as the Wilderness. If I remember correctly on May 10, 1864 Grant and Lee squared off. Fires in the brush consumed the wounded. It was close quarters fighting. Horrible by all definitions of war. After the carnage the survivors simply sat on the ground and wailed like children. Think about that!
It must have been Justin. BTW those battlefield are priceless. Well worth the trip!!!I believe it. I just finished the section that dealt with that battle in the Lewis/Catton trilogy. It sounded like Hell on Earth.
Much appreciated. Just curious, are any of the other Overland Campaign battlefields worth a trip? I just read about them, and was wondering if they've been preserved or not.It must have been Justin. BTW those battlefield are priceless. Well worth the trip!!!
The little plaque says it depicts the reaction after the Bloody Angle, which was the hell-on-earth that was Spotsylvania. That's what the dates match up with, also. Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, it was all unimaginably horrible.I'm actually having a hard time remembering. I believe I took it at the museum at the Chancollorsville battlefield which is located just minutes from the location know as the Wilderness. If I remember correctly on May 10, 1864 Grant and Lee squared off. Fires in the brush consumed the wounded. It was close quarters fighting. Horrible by all definitions of war. After the carnage the survivors simply sat on the ground and wailed like children. Think about that!
I've not read Lewis/Catton. I take it the trilogy is worth a read. I've seen Cartton referred to many times as a source.I believe it. I just finished the section that dealt with that battle in the Lewis/Catton Grant trilogy. It sounded like Hell on Earth.