Life from the Mouth of Death

Chancellorsville

Life from the Mouth of Death

Long silent, the mouth of this cannon at Fairview on the Chancellorsville battlefield is about to breathe life instead of the death it spewed over one hundred forty years ago.

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Lieutenant George B. Winslow, commanding Battery D, 1st New York Artillery: “Meanwhile the enemy continued to advance, our own troops slowly retiring before him. In a few moments, the former came out of the woods not more than 100 yards from the muzzle of my guns, planted their colors by the side of the road, and commenced picking off my men and horses. When a sufficient number had rallied around their colors, my guns having been previously loaded with canister, I gave the order to fire.” -- Winslow’s battle report, in War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, series I, volume 25, part 1, page 488

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