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I do know that many wonded at the wilderness in '64 were burned alive when the underbrush caught fire. There are many horrible accounts I have read or seen that details those poor mens fate. Some commited suicide rather than be engulfed in flames, while others were not spared such a painless fate. Men on both sides recalled the terrible screaming heard that night after the battle coming from the wounded as they desperatley tried to crawl away and escape or were engulfed in flames. Just thinking of it gives me the chills, and the only thing I can compare it to is seeing those poor souls leaping from the WTC to escape the flames.
Too often we get caught up in the pomp and chivalrous nature of that age, and forget those words uttered by William T. Sherman. War is indeed hell.