Probably the most desperate battle of the war was fought
last Wednesday near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Great loss on both sides. The Yankees
claim a great victory, while our men do the same. We were left in possession of
the field on Wednesday night, and buried our dead on Thursday. Want of food and
other stores compelled our generals to remove our forces to the Virginia side of
the river, which they did on Thursday night, without molestation. This is all I
can gather from the confused and contradictory accounts of the newspapers.
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 156-7
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