Sunset on Henry House Hill

First Manassas

Sunset on Henry House Hill

The sun sets on the Manassas battlefield.

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Private Randolph H. McKim of the 1st Maryland Infantry: “As I lay down to sleep on the battle field that night, I had much to think of. The weariness of the day and the peril of the battle were lost sight of in the awful scenes of death and suffering to which we had been introduced that day for the first time.  I had seen the reality of the battle field, its carnage, its desolation, its awful pictures of the wounded, the dying, and the dead. Somehow I was especially moved by the sight of the battery horses on the Henry Hill, so frightfully torn by shot and shell. The sufferings of the poor brutes, not in their own battle or by their own fault, but for man’s sake, appealed to me in a peculiar way. Mingled with my devout thankfulness for my own safety was my sorrow as news came in of friend after friend, and some relatives too, who had fallen.” -- McKim’s memoirs, A Soldier’s Recollections: Leaves from the Diary of a Young Confederate, page 37

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