M Anthony Young
Corporal
- Joined
- Feb 3, 2011
- Location
- Belfast, N Ireland
I am just coming to the end of Wiley Sword's "The Confederacy's Last Hurrah". The battle of Nashville has just started but I know it will be totally anti-climatic because of where Sword has just before taken me-The Battle of Frankin. As I read of the ferocity, intensity,brutality and sheer terror of the battle I found my jaw dropping in absolute awe.From where in the name of God did Hood's army dredge up the courage to mount and sustain their attack for so long in the face of heavily reinforced works and such remorseless fire? I would regard myself as a sort of honourary Yankee but my admiration of these Southern men is boundless.
I found Sword's treatment of the aftermath very moving. The eye witness accounts from both sides and all ranks of the mangled heaps of riddled corpses, the agonised groans of the wounded and the fear and terror frozen on the faces of the bodies in death's rigour would draw tears from granite. I don't mind confessing that I got a wee bit emotional reading this particular chapter.
This must surely have been the most ferocious contest of arms of the whole war.
Micky.
I found Sword's treatment of the aftermath very moving. The eye witness accounts from both sides and all ranks of the mangled heaps of riddled corpses, the agonised groans of the wounded and the fear and terror frozen on the faces of the bodies in death's rigour would draw tears from granite. I don't mind confessing that I got a wee bit emotional reading this particular chapter.
This must surely have been the most ferocious contest of arms of the whole war.
Micky.