Till Death Ended Their Lives

By:Brianna Neely

Rebel soldier killed in the trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers "Fort Damnation"

This picture was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburg, Virginia, April 2nd, 1865.

Federal soldier disembowelled by a shell

Dead Federal soldier on the battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Dead Civil War Soldiers at Antietam

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862.

This is a Federal Soldier that died during the battle at Petersburg, Virginia.

Petersburg, Virginia. Dead Fed. Soldier

Dead Confederate soldiers await burial at Rose Farm near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. July 5, 1863.

Dead Confederate Soldiers

A group of dead Confederate soldiers killed during the Battle of the Wilderness. May 1864.

Dead Confederate Soldiers

Dunker Church, Antietam

Several dead soldiers lying outside of Dunker Church, which survived the Battle of Antietam and

was used as an aid station

Fort Mahone, Petersburg

A dead Confederate soldier in the trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers 'Fort Damnation.

Slain Confederate Sharpshooter at Gettysburg

A Confederate sharpshooter lies dead in a trench at Gettysburg

Confederate Dead at Petersburg, Virginia

After a nine-month siege, the Confederates finally abandoned their position outside Petersburg in the

spring of 1865.

“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

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