'General Sherman's army'
'Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia'
'"Orderly" is a word covering a multitude of duties. An orderly may be a messenger, a clerk, an officer's servant - anything. He may perform services for which no provision is made in orders and army regulations.'
'picket-line, the men on duty there lying in groups of two and four behind little banks of earth scooped out of the slight depression in which they lay, their rifles protruding from the green boughs with which they had masked their small defences."
'Private Searing was not to murder anybody that bright summer morning, nor was the Confederate retreat to be announced by him."
'retreating Confederates'
'A smart rap on the head from a flying fragment of the splintered post, incurred simultaneously with the frightfully sudden shock to the nervous system, had momentarily dazed him."
'having nothing better to do while awaiting his turn to pull out and be off, amused himself by sighting a field-piece obliquely to his right at what he mistook for some Federal officers on the crest of a hill, and discharged it.'
The Union Army - General Sherman had 100, 000 men, 254 guns, 35, 000 horses
The Confederate Army - General Johnston had 63, 000 men, 187 guns
67, 000 men killed, wounded and captured.
2923 acre battlefield. Kennesaw Mountain is 808ft above sea level.
The Atlanta Campaign was at KM from June 19, 1864 to July 2, 1864. Bierce suffered a bullet wound to the head on the 23rd of June 1864 during this campaign.
"hundreds of yards of six-foot deep earthworks snaked throughout their yards and fields" -
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