I got off my horse and as I walked off to a corner, I could smell the fear in my men grow by the second. The time before the battle trembled down, but I knew that with this amount of fear we would never win. I got on top of a pillar and looked around, in the past two days my army decreased nearly by half. Every man was scared, I could see the look in their eyes as I stared at them and they stared back with great distress.
I start to call the force lineup “Attionnnn…”
And realized that the field that was once full of happy animals had now become a deserted land of cold a lifeless place where in just moments rivers of blood would flow and brothers would kill brothers. . I continued to express my mind with the soldiers but this time with a different topic and different moment “In the last two days we have lost too many brothers. Too many families have been ruined, too many kids now don’t …show more content…
I asked myself “Was this win really a win?” “All the families that were now ruined, and those people that were either dead or dying, was this win really worth it?”
I saw one of my soldiers on the side, lying near a tree, I ran over, screaming for support. I went over, and tried to stop the blood from flowing. He was trembling and started to speak but I could barely hear him. “It waaa-ss an ho-ho-nor to fight by your side” he spit out blood “what ever happened was not your fault, we-e all ch-ch-chose to fight for our country. If I had another chance to live I wouldn’t do it any other way…” I touched his arm trying to get a pulse, but cold as ice. The medics came and took him away. By the end of the day we had a total of 22,717 casualties, 12,401 Union casualties and 10,316 Confederate casualties 753 of my men were missing & captured and 9,540 wounded. We had won the battle but had lost a lot more. We were closer to the end of the war, but further to happiness than ever before. Was this really worth
I start to call the force lineup “Attionnnn…”
And realized that the field that was once full of happy animals had now become a deserted land of cold a lifeless place where in just moments rivers of blood would flow and brothers would kill brothers. . I continued to express my mind with the soldiers but this time with a different topic and different moment “In the last two days we have lost too many brothers. Too many families have been ruined, too many kids now don’t …show more content…
I asked myself “Was this win really a win?” “All the families that were now ruined, and those people that were either dead or dying, was this win really worth it?”
I saw one of my soldiers on the side, lying near a tree, I ran over, screaming for support. I went over, and tried to stop the blood from flowing. He was trembling and started to speak but I could barely hear him. “It waaa-ss an ho-ho-nor to fight by your side” he spit out blood “what ever happened was not your fault, we-e all ch-ch-chose to fight for our country. If I had another chance to live I wouldn’t do it any other way…” I touched his arm trying to get a pulse, but cold as ice. The medics came and took him away. By the end of the day we had a total of 22,717 casualties, 12,401 Union casualties and 10,316 Confederate casualties 753 of my men were missing & captured and 9,540 wounded. We had won the battle but had lost a lot more. We were closer to the end of the war, but further to happiness than ever before. Was this really worth