Early Morning Light at Battery Heights

Second Manassas

Early Morning Light at Battery Heights

Shortly after sunrise on the Second Manassas battlefield.

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Adjutant Franklin A. Haskell, staff officer, Gibbon’s Brigade: “At a little past midnight, we were ordered to leave the scene of our terrible battle. . . . As the day light came on the next morning, none of us could look upon our thinned ranks, so full the night before, now so shattered, without tears. And the faces of the brave boys, as the morning sun disclosed them, no pen can describe. . . . The dust and blackness of battle were upon their clothes, and in their hair, and on their skin, but you saw none of these,--you saw only their eyes, and the shadows of the ‘light of battle.’ -- as quoted in Voices of the Civil War: Second Manassas, page 103

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