Greensborough Patriot

November13, 1862

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            INDIFFERENCE TO DEATH DURING BATTLE—A soldier who was in all the battles before Richmond remarks that “it is astonishing how indifferent to danger a man becomes in action after being in a short time.  While supporting a battery some of our men lay down on the ground and slept soundly regardless of the shells that were bursting around them.  If I had not seen this I certainly never would have believed it.”

 

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]