[abishai]

Reminds me of when John Bell Hood was trying to get in a short breakfast after counter-attacking Joe Hooker in the Antietam cornfield, and suffering horrible casualties doing so.

Shanks Evans asks him where all his men were.

Hood points toward the front, "Dead in the field."

[U-238]

Antietam was the bloodiest single day battle in American history .Over 23,000 casualities on both sides.More Americans died on September 17, 1862, than on any other day in the nation’s military.

[U-238]

McClellan deserved to be relived of his duties after the battle.

[Reo]

My great-grandfather was in The Cornfield with the 1st Div, 12th Corps under Brig Gen Alpheus Williams. I had the opportunity to walk that field over to the Dunker Church a few years ago. What an awesome experience. Sobering, too, as a slightly different path for some wandering mini-ball would mean I’m not here writing this post.

[Reo]

My great-grandfather was in The Cornfield with the 1st Div, 12th Corps under Brig Gen Alpheus Williams. I had the opportunity to walk that field over to the Dunker Church a few years ago. What an awesome experience. Sobering, too, as a slightly different path for some wandering mini-ball would mean I’m not here writing this post.