It actually seemed a pity to kill men so. They fell in heaps; and I had it in my heart to order the firing to cease, to end the awful sight. When the firing stopped, one could have walked two hundred yards down that ditch on dead Rebels, without touching the ground. General John T Wilder, Army of the Cumberland, reflecting on the Battle of Chickamauga, when he mounted brigade, equipped with seven shot repeater carbines, waited for a Rebel column to emerge into a clearing flanked by a large ditch. It quickly turned into a killing field.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:05:52 +0000
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