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 Posted: Sat Jan 13th, 2007 12:55 am
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Johnny Huma
Johnny Huma


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 On one of my many tours of Gettysburg a guide had showed us a spot there in what was called "No Man's Land" the area between Seminary Ridge and Cemetery Hill..This area now has parking lots and houses built where none stood before..Rock Creek flowed through this area and on July 4th when the rains came there were a lot of wounded lying near the creek bed which gave cover to the area of fire above them.

Most of these men could not be moved and drowned as the creek rose with the rains. The bodies floated downstream and under a bridge which actually damed up with the bodies and blocking the flow of water..Imagine lying there not being able to move and know that the end is coming by way of drowning and not being able to do anything about it..Sad..The suffering from their wounds were not enough..Maybe some actually welcomed death...These types of things that happened can only be seen in the mind now..I am sure it was a horrible sight for the ones that had to clean the bodies out of these places along with the smells of it all..Then imagine after the battle all the people who actually came to Gettysburg to claim bodies and to help with the aftermath which put a much larger burden on the town than the battle itself.

What a nightmare war is...As we all often daydream about what it was like and tell ourselves I would love to have been there and seen it all I really think we would not..

If we had that one chance to go back in time and to expierience it all on our own and be a part of it I think we would hesitate to walk through that time portal knowing the horror on the other side of it...

Huma