Three Years in the Sixth Corps (Abridged, Annotated)

"While the excitement of battle lasts, and we hear the roar of artillery, and the shock of contending armies, the terrible reality of the occasion hardly presents itself to our minds, and it is only when we survey the bloody field, strewed with the mangled, lifeless remains of friend and foe, or walk through the hospitals, where the unfortunate victims of battle withe in the agony of their wounds, that we realize the terrible nature of a great battle."

George Stevens served for three years a...