Tuesday, July 01, 2003 - 06:00 AM History Articles: Cyrus F. Boyd's observations relative to the appearance of Shiloh battlefield
Posted by: Dr. James Jones
21, Cyrus F. Boyd's observations relative to the appearance of Shiloh battlefield
Weather cool and chilly. Has rained for five days and the roads are impassable. This is the most Godforsaken country I ever saw. We move camp about every day and in the woods all the time. This is one vast graveyard and shall we ever get out to it[.] The rains have washed the earth from the dead men and horses. Skulls and toes are sticking up from beneath the clay all around and the heavy wagons crush the bodies turning up the bones of the buried, making this one vast Golgotha[.] Sometimes our tents come over a little mound where sleep[s] some unknown soldier who has died [sic] for a principale [sic] but his serevivors [sic] have not even marked his last resting place or given him the burial of a faithful dog[.] What a mockery these lines seem ?
?lest are the brave who sink to rest
With all their Country?s wishes best.?
Boyd Diary, April 21, 1862.
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