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The Sword of Antietam

CHAPTER X
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He had found that all of his friends had received wounds, although they were too slight to put them out of action.

But the Winchester regiment had suffered terribly again.

It did not have a hundred men left fit for service, and even at that it had got off better than some others.

In one of the Virginia regiments under Longstreet only fourteen men had been left unhurt.
Dick stood beside his colonel--Warner and Pennington were lying in a stupor--and he was appalled.

The battle had been fought within a narrow area, and the tremendous destruction was visible in the moonlight, heaped up everywhere.


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