"The Voices and Groans of the Dying ... Sounded as From Some Other World”
Life on the Civil War Reserach Trail
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Captain Dennis Barnes of the 93rd New York Infantry found himself deep in The Wilderness on the night of May 5, 1864, searching for men wounded and left behind in the thick underbrush after a brutal, bloody, and relentless day of combat. Here's what happened next.
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