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"Night steeped the battlefield in darkness and cast an eerie pall over the combatants. Only an occasional shot, the shrieks of the wounded, and the creaking of ambulances carting the maimed to hospitals broke the stillness.
A member of the Philadelphia Brigade recalled that 'the wounded lay everywhere about us, and to assist the stretcher-bearers in finding them quickly, these poor fellows were told by their comrades to groan continually until they were found.' '
O'Reilly, Francis Augustín. The Fredericksburg Campaign
We blogged about the Battle of Fredericksburg here. This blog is about its aftermath.
