Excellent book!

Thinking back, I hadn't survived. That boy, that wide-eyed, unsuspecting fool of a boy, died out there, little by little, on every field of battle. Every time he killed another man, every time he watched another man die, friend or foe, it wounded that boy until finally no more wounds could be

"Oh! the rush and roar of the battle! I wonder if the dreadful sounds will ever get out of my ears."

-- Captain David Been, 14th Indiana (Sunken Road)

Huyette survived the fighting in the West Eoods. Here is a picture of Huyette with his grandson during WWII.

“No words can convey to the inexperienced a comprehensive idea of the surging and plunging of two great armies in deadly battle – a hurricane of death sweeping the earth.”

-- Miles Huyette, 125th Pennsylvania

"What will I do if you never come back?"

"It would be better for the boys to be without a father than to be without a government under which to live."

-- Hugh Irish to Betty Irish before enlisting in August 1862. Captain Irish was KIA along the Hagerstown Pike.

Just finished reading this really interesting book.

"I had seen paintings of Battle scenes, and I had read of the battles of the Revolution, of the War of 1812, and oh! how my young heart used to swell with patriotic pride as I read of the glorious victories achieved by the American army in Mexico, and how I longed to witness one."

Gardner photo near the same location.

One of my favorite regimental monuments at Antietam and completely unique -- 90th Pennsylvania Volunteers near the Cornfield.

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