crossroads of freedom
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Crossroads of Freedom II
The Battle on the Cornfield, wrote Hooker, where the slain lay in rows precisely as they stood in their ranks a few minutes before. Jackson and Lee also fed 3 divisions into the meat grinder.
The flags were up & down several times a minute. The mental strain so great the whole landscape turned slightly red.
“The waste and carnage lay on the field. Smashed weapons, dead horses, bloody clothing, knapsacks and blanket rolls among the smell of rotting corpses, vomit and feces”, a soldier wrote in his diary the following morning.