Mr.
Conkling said that his resolution related to "the most atrocious military murder ever committed in our history as a people.

It relates to a lost field; to a disastrous and humiliating battle; to a blunder so gross that all men can see it,--a blunder which cost us confessedly nine hundred and thirty men, the very pride and flower of the States from which they came.".

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"The Bluff is a mile in length up and down the river, and the landing and ascent were made in the middle of it.