Nowhere To Go

For nearly two weeks, from June 3 to June 12, soldiers endured the agony of trench warfare. One Virginian recalled thousands of men cramped in a narrow trench, unable to go out, get up, stretch, or stand without danger to life and limb, and unable to lie down or sleep for lack of room and the pressure of peril. They faced night alarms, day attacks, hunger, thirst, extreme weariness, squalor, vermin, filth, disgusting odors, and the constant threat of sharpshooters at daybreak, when a man’s life might be the price of a cup of water from the spring.

Mechanicsville, Virginia · United States