"The hoarse and indistinguishable orders from commanding officers, the screaming and bursting of shells, canister and shrapnel as they tore through the struggling masses of humanity, the death-screams of wounded animals, the groans of their human companions, wounded and dying and trampling under foot by hurrying batteries, riderless horses, and the moving lines of battle… a perfect hell on earth never perhaps to be equaled, certainly not to be surpassed, nor ever to be forgotten in a man's lifetime.  It has never been effaced from my memory, day or night, for 50 years."

- Pvt. Robert H. Carter, 22nd Massachusetts Infantry
