We marched in silence, or involuntarily spoke in whispers, as though fearing to disturb those ghastly remains of humanity.

The sights we encountered were horrible and sickening to the last degree.

Here a dog gnawed at an uncovered limb; there a vulture, disturbed by our approach from its loathsome meal, but too completely gorged to fly, fluttered away to a safer distance.

In many instances the positions of the bodies were appallingly life-like.

Some lay with their arms uplifted as if beckoning, and, indeed, the whole scene was weird and terrible beyond description.