Stickley, Company A, 5th Virginia Infantry \"Wounded at Sharpsburg,\" Confederate Veteran Magazine. 208._The third shell struck and killed my horse and bursting, blew him to pieces, knocked me down, of course, and tore off my right arm.Pvt. \"Sandie\" Pendleton, CSA Douglass Southall Freeman, Lee's Lieutenants. In that mile's ride I never expected to come back alive.Lt. Shot and shell shrieking and crashing, canister and bullets whistling and hissing most fiend-like through the air until you could almost see them. 48._Such a storm of balls I never conceived it possible for men to live through. History of the 35th Massachusetts Volunteers, p. Give me love to all our friends.Very Truly yoursGeorge11th Connecticut (Fought at Burnside Bridge)_September 19, 1862Dear People, C Burnside division with name of place (Washington) for the present. K on my letters in future, but simply Dr G. I will tell you where to send the box soon. I am still in the hospital near the battle ground the Regt. I think that it will be so that I can get a little box by express soon. I should be pleased with your photograph which you spoke of. It was not the value that I cared for, but the giver. Some villain riffled my pockets of several packages of medicine, my fine tooth comb and what I valued most my needle book containing the little lock of hair you put in. The attack was perfectly successful, we fell back to a brick house a mile in the rear and established a hospital.I took off my coat to dress wounds and met with a great loss. The shells also bursting over our heads and on the ground around us. I had a bag of bandages and some few other things in hand, we lay low I can assure you and the way the bullets whistled around us is better imagined than described. I was in company with the surgeons and we laid ourselves down between the hills of corn and in a lot west of the bridge being a corn field. Rodman passed.The action soon became general all along the lines, language would fail me to describe the scene. The enemies sharpshooters commenced the action being posted in trees and under cover of a wall on the high ground on the other side of the creek, the order was for the 11th to take and hold the bridge until the division of Genl. Until it reached the fatal bridge that crosses the creek, this bridge is composed of 3 stone arches and the stream is about the size of that one just west of Berlin. The loss of the 11th is dreadful.I followed in the rear of the Regt. You will doubtless have learned the details of this great battle before this reaches you. I should have written you before, but did not know for a certainty where to direct. 21, 1862 Sharpsburg, MDDear Wife,Your letters 3 in number reached me 1st evening, and it gave me much pleasure to hear from you.
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