History of the Eighth Cavalry Regiment Illinois Volunteers During the Great Re
History of the Eighth Cavalry Regiment Illinois Volunteers During the Great Re
Abner Hard
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On our right the battle raged with varying success. General Hooker was in command in this part of the field, and was wounded, and General Sumner supplied his place. To and fro the armies swayed over a field that was repeat- edly won and lost, until the ground was strewn with dead and dying, and neither side gained very great advantage. On our left, at the lower stone bridge across the Antietam where General Burnside commanded, the battle was terribly sanguinary, the crossing was finally efi'ect...ed, but the slaughter was heart-sickening. In the center I think our success was probably better, but purchased with an almost inconceivable loss of life. The "Irish Brigade" and One Hundred and Thirtieth Pennsylvania, here made a desperate charge over an open field and dislodged the enemy from a lane, which had been 24 186 THE EIGHTH ILLINOIS CAVALRY. gullied out by the rain, so that it made, with the stones pilei along its edge ready to be made into a fence, an excellent barricade. They also drove them from a cornfield in front of the lane, from which a deadly fire had been kept up for many hours.
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