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09-16-2002, 05:21 PM
Antietam Eyewitness Accounts (http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-antietam-witnesses0916sep16.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnationwor ld%2Dheadlines)
By The Associated Press
September 16, 2002, 8:12 AM EDT
Eyewitness accounts of the Battle of Antietam:
* "I was lying on my back, supported on my elbows, watching the shells explode and speculating on how long I could hold up my finger before it would be shot off, for the very air seemed full of bullets." Lt. Matthew Graham, New York Volunteers.
* "The truth is, when bullets are whacking against tree trunks and solid shot are cracking skulls like eggshells, the consuming passion of the average man is to get out of the way ... The whole landscape for a moment turned slightly red." Pvt. David L. Thompson, New York Volunteers.
* "In the time that I am writing every stalk of corn in the northern and greater part of the field was cut as closely as could have been done with a knife, and the slain lay in rows, precisely as they had stood in their ranks a few moments before," Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker.
* "Shot and shell shrieking and crashing, canister and bullets whistling and hissing most fiend-like through the air until you could almost see them. In that mile's ride I never expected to come back alive." Confederate Lt. Col. A.S. Pendleton.
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By The Associated Press
September 16, 2002, 8:12 AM EDT
Eyewitness accounts of the Battle of Antietam:
* "I was lying on my back, supported on my elbows, watching the shells explode and speculating on how long I could hold up my finger before it would be shot off, for the very air seemed full of bullets." Lt. Matthew Graham, New York Volunteers.
* "The truth is, when bullets are whacking against tree trunks and solid shot are cracking skulls like eggshells, the consuming passion of the average man is to get out of the way ... The whole landscape for a moment turned slightly red." Pvt. David L. Thompson, New York Volunteers.
* "In the time that I am writing every stalk of corn in the northern and greater part of the field was cut as closely as could have been done with a knife, and the slain lay in rows, precisely as they had stood in their ranks a few moments before," Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker.
* "Shot and shell shrieking and crashing, canister and bullets whistling and hissing most fiend-like through the air until you could almost see them. In that mile's ride I never expected to come back alive." Confederate Lt. Col. A.S. Pendleton.
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