Reminiscences of the War of the Rebellion 1861 1865 volume 2
Reminiscences of the War of the Rebellion 1861 1865 volume 2
Elbridge J Copp
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During the l)oml)ardment from our guns, night and day, the fire had been so hot and continuous that it gave the garrison no time to bury their dead. The bodies of the killed had been hastily thrown over the parapet, and rolled down into the ditch on the outside, where they were lying literally in piles, the limbs and bodies swollen beyond the send^lance of human form, with eyes protrud- 273 REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION ing, faces distorted into an expression of fiends, the de- comp...osition filling the air with stench intolerable, and be- yond endnrance — we seemed to have entered the very gates of hell — langnage fails to convey the horrors of the conditions. I was filled with a sickening sensation that was overcoming. Bnt "On to Fort Gregg" is the order. Throngh the fort and on to Fort Gregg we moved, it being the extreme north of the island, and within easy range of Snmter. All along the roadway between A\'agner and Gregg were similar conditions to those in and around Wagner; dead mules and horses, dead men, the ruins of army and ammunition wagons which had been destroyed by our guns in the attempt of the enemy to supply the gar- rison besieged in Fort AVagner.
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