“Blood had run knee deep, and the ground knew still”
Hyperbole much?
I’ve never heard of any CW stories where soldiers waded through”knee deep blood”
Maybe if all the blood spilled were calculated it might equal such if put into a container which allowed such measurements but no battlefield accounts exist.
Well, there is this, locally
Over 5000 casualties in a sunken road that’s really kinda smallish.
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Bloody Lane Summary: The sunken road that was later to be named “Bloody Lane” was site to some of the fiercest fighting in the Battle of Antietam. For nearly 4 hours, Union and Confederate forces fought in this sunken clay road. At the end, it was said that blood flowed like a river inside it, giving it the name “Bloody Lane.”