"These Men Are Going to Stay Here"

Before the fighting started here, General Robert E. Lee rode up to encourage his men, and Colonel John B. Gordon answered for all to hear that his men would stay there until the sun went down or victory was won. Years later, Gordon lamented that many of those brave men were still there. Another account recalled that in the road so many dead Confederates lay in a line, just as they had been killed, amid blood soaking the earth, that one might have walked upon them as far as could be seen.

Keedysville, Maryland · United States