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Asst. Regtl. QM Stones River / Franklin 2022
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- North Mississippi
"Went over the battleground again today & saw some of the most shocking sights I ever beheld. Men were lying dead in every possible position. Some with their heads torn off, limbs scattered around & the dead horses were in heaps all over the field & today it was quite cool which is very favorable, otherwise this stench would be almost intolerable. Most of the dead bodies have been robbed by our own men. The faces of the dead were perfectly black. Our men have been busy ever since the battly burying the dead but hundreds still unburied. Every house in the neighborhood is filled with wounded rebels. Some have been brought in today who have been lying in the woods since Monday."
April 9, 1862 Diary entry of James Hannegan of the 5th Ohio Cavalry at Shiloh
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David
[Diary of James Hannegan of the 5th Ohio Cavalry] | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
[Diary of James Hannegan of the 5th Ohio Cavalry] | | Diary is an autograph manuscript signed, neatly written in pencil, covering 1 January 1862-31 December 1862. Writes about the battle being raged at Fort Donelson in his entry of 15 February, reporting that the "citizens are in a terrible...
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