A Bridge in Maryland

[Gettmore]

 

[bayouace]

The water still has shades of red.

 

[lupaglupa]

Such a peaceful spot. It's hard to imagine what is must have been like.

 

[Chalmers' Division]

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"Volley after volley we poured into them, tearing great gaps in their ranks. They came on and we drove them back; they came on again, and again we drove them back. For hours we held them, and the creek ran red with their blood."
— Pvt. Alexander Hunter, 17th Virginia Infantry, describing the fire of Toombs' Georgians at Burnside's Bridge (later published in Johnny Reb and Billy Yank, 1905).

 

[JOHN42768]

The creek still flows very slowly washing away the sorrows that occurred upon the bridge and banks. Even if torrential currents roared the sorrows will always remain.

 

[uaskme]

They didn't burn that one.