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At Antietam.

buy provigil online safely “When I think of the battle of Antietam, it seems so strange.  Who permits it?  To see or feel that a power is in existence that can and will hurl masses of men against each other in deadly conflict – slaying each other by the thousands, mangling and deforming their fellow men – is almost impossible.  But it is so, and why, we cannot know.” – Dr. William Childs, surgeon, 5th New Hampshire Infantry, letter October 1862

The Bloody Lane, where thousands of bodies glutted the sunken roadbed.

http://kirstincronn-mills.com/?p=1794 The Bloody Lane, where thousands of bodies glutted the sunken roadbed.

And furthermore so strange, that I found my thoughts obsessed with the same questions, when walking around the quiet battlefield by dawnlight, before I laid eyes on the above words.  Twenty-three thousand men fell in one day – more than the battle casualties of all the previous American wars combined.  And now, like all battlefields, it just seems like a quiet, peaceful place, and the carnage that took place there both inconceivable and incomprehensible.

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