...handkerchiefs to us from the veranda. 206 CHAPTER XVII FIELD HOSPITAL NEAR PETERSBURG June 24th, 1864. I AM up to my neck in work. It is slaughter, slaughter. Our brigade has met with a sad loss by having three entire regiments gobbled up as prisoners. The Twentieth...

...handkerchiefs to us from the veranda. .fl* CHAPTER XVII FIELD HOSPITAL NEAE PETERSBUBG June 24th, 1864. I AM up to my neck in work. It is slaughter, slaughter. Our brigade has met with a sad loss by having three entire regiments gobbled up as prisoners. The Twentieth...

...that they can pick off anything which appears in sight. Field Hospital near Petersburg June 24th, 1864 I am up to my neck in work. It is slaughter, slaughter. Our brigade has met with a sad loss by having three entire regiments gobbled up as prisoners. The Twentieth...

...sweeps up, covering everything with a dirty, white coating."33 A few days later Dr. Perry wrote again: "I am up to my neck in work. It is slaughter, slaughter, slaughter. . . . Horses and mules die by the hundreds from continued hard labor and scant feed. The...

...Perry: "I am heartsick over it all." At Petersburg, he described war as a "perfect maelstrom of horror": "I am up to my neck in work. It is slaughter, slaughter. . . . War! war! war!" Dr. Perry was eventually discharged from the army, ostensibly owing to his wife's...

...fire I have utterly failed. 3. Camp near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee Dearest Jenny, 11 April 1862 I am up to my neck in work. It is slaughter, slaughter. I have grown quite callous to death, and now watch even friends die with little feeling. When first...