Gregory A. Coco
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“A Union soldier recalled the Confederate dead along Cemetery Ridge: No words can depict the ghastly picture…the men lay in heaps, the wounded wriggling and groaning under the weight of the dead among whom they were entangled….I could not long endure the gory, ghastly spectacle. I found my head reeling, the tears flowing and my stomach sick at the sight. For months the specter haunted my dreams…”
― A Strange and Blighted Land: Gettysburg: The Aftermath of a Battle
― A Strange and Blighted Land: Gettysburg: The Aftermath of a Battle
“only approximately 25 percent of the citizens of the United States and Confederate States were actual professed Christians. This particular brand of religious myth had not yet really taken hold of society.”
― A Strange and Blighted Land: Gettysburg: The Aftermath of a Battle
― A Strange and Blighted Land: Gettysburg: The Aftermath of a Battle
“Quotes like these make one wonder as to the Commission’s real purpose for being at Gettysburg, and brings to mind the words used by an overworked surgeon when he exclaimed, “I’d give 100 DD’s [doctors of divinity] for one extra M.D. right now!”
― A Strange and Blighted Land: Gettysburg: The Aftermath of a Battle
― A Strange and Blighted Land: Gettysburg: The Aftermath of a Battle
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