incidents, for (Soldier in the Ranks)
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describe a group of men coming off the
field, after a heavy battle, the grime,
the sweat, ^some half naked the torn & dusty clothes,
their own mothers would not recognize
them— The moon rises ^silently over the battle field
but red as blood, coming above the
smoke—you look over the field, you
see little lights moving around, stopping & moving
around again, they are searching for the wounded,& brought
they are bringing off the dead At Gettysburgh, the second day of the battle,
our troops drove the secession army from
a position they had occupied, & where the
preceding night, they had gathered their dead—
theandead lay in certain
parts
spots
of the field
piled three or four deep where the had placed them,
to beburial ready for burial the next
nmorning.
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Poems in works (Camden
III: 289
indcidents, for (Soldier in the Ranks)
describe a group of men coming off the
field, after a heavy battle, the grime,
the sweat, ^some half naked the torn & dusty clothes,
their own mothers would not recognize
them— The moon rises ^silently over the battle field
but red as blood, coming above the
smoke—you look over the field, you
see little lights moving around, stopping & moving
around again, they are searching for the wounded,
they are bringing off the dead At Gettysburgh, the second day of the battle,
our troops drove the secession army from
a position they had occupied, & where the
preceding night, they had gathered their dead—
the
piled three or four deep where the had placed them,
to be
Poems in works (Camden
III: 289