Mike Serpa
Major
- Joined
- Jan 24, 2013
She struggles her way from New York City to Gettysburg because "She had a husband and a brother in the 14th Brooklyn, and both were dead or severely wounded on that battle-plain."... "She found her noble gray-haired brother with a led torn off. At length heard from her brave husband, a wounded prisoner in Libby."
The story goes on to tell how how, "Some exhumed hundreds of bodies, but never found the dead for whom they searched." Is this a true statement? Did this happen at Gettysburg? Did this occur at other battlefields?
"The blue and gray; a history of the conflicts during Lee's invasion and Battle of Gettysburg" Page 137
by Gilbert, J. Warren
Published c1922
https://archive.org/stream/grayandblueconfl00gilbrich#page/136/mode/2up/search/Carrie+Sheads
The story goes on to tell how how, "Some exhumed hundreds of bodies, but never found the dead for whom they searched." Is this a true statement? Did this happen at Gettysburg? Did this occur at other battlefields?
"The blue and gray; a history of the conflicts during Lee's invasion and Battle of Gettysburg" Page 137
by Gilbert, J. Warren
Published c1922
https://archive.org/stream/grayandblueconfl00gilbrich#page/136/mode/2up/search/Carrie+Sheads