Foot to foot, body to body and man to man
they struggled, pushed and strived and killed.
The mass of wounded and heaps of dead en-
tangled the feet of the contestants, and, under-
neath the trampling mass, wounded men who
could no longer stand, struggled, fought,
shouted and killed-hatless, coatless, drowned
in sweat, black with powder, red with blood,
with fiendish yells and strange oaths, they
blindly plied the work of slaughter, valor
could do no more.
tangled the feet of the contestants, and, under-
neath the trampling mass, wounded men who
could no longer stand, struggled, fought,
shouted and killed-hatless, coatless, drowned
in sweat, black with powder, red with blood,
with fiendish yells and strange oaths, they
blindly plied the work of slaughter, valor
could do no more.
by a Massachusetts soldier
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