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Oliver Boardman correspondence and journals, 1861-1863
05_1861-08-06 Page 05
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at the foot of alittle bank where he was lying when I saw him. his clothes were bloody his breast was bare and aball hole through it so large that you could almost see daylight through he was a young looking man I suppose he was about 25 or 30 years old. he had been there three or four hours when I saw him it was the hardest sight I ever saw. people kept coming into town all day and by night there was quite an army there but the enemy was agood ways off we all staid that night but the most of them went home the next morning the most of our regiment staid until about 4 oclock in the evening so that I had quite aramble over the battle field. I saw some houses that were prety well riddled. I saw one house agood frame house that acanon ball had made ahole through it was about a nine pound ball it went in right close to the door on one side and passed rigt on through the house and never stopt for any any of the walls but just passed
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at the foot of alittle bank where he was lying when I saw him. his clothes were bloody his breast was bare and aball hole through it so large that you could almost see daylight through he was a young looking man I suppose he was about 25 or 30 years old. he had been there three or four hours when I saw him it was the hardest sight I ever saw. people kept coming into town all day and by night there was quite an army there but the enemy was agood ways off we all staid that night but the most of them went home the next morning the most of our regiment staid until about 4 oclock in the evening so that I had quite aramble over the battle field. I saw some houses that were prety well riddled. I saw one house agood frame house that acanon ball had made ahole through it was about a nine pound ball it went in right close to the door on one side and passed rigt on through the house and never stopt for any any of the walls but just passed
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