"Every Stalk of Corn"

Americans fought back and forth across the Cornfield for three hours in what may have been the most concentrated fury in American history. The Union First Corps and Twelfth Corps were fought out, while on the Confederate side Jackson's corps and Hood's Division were wrecked. As the battle moved on, Union General Hooker said that every stalk of corn in the northern and greater part of the field was cut as closely as could have been done with a knife, and the slain lay in rows precisely as they had stood in their ranks a few moments before; he called it a more bloody, dismal battlefield than any he had ever witnessed.

Shepherdstown, Maryland · United States