Battle of Gettysburg day two.

My hands are numb and my shoulders shake with the cold.

I sit on my arse in the cold damp grass,

the campfire does nothing to warm this situation.

It just cracks and spits at the damp wood.



Hardly a word is said and yet my

mind is full of screaming and shouting.

If I pissed myself once this day

I did it four or five times,

never has my cock leaked so much

yet I haven"t shit in days.



Food is low but moral is good

and we all have high hopes

for tomorrows battle.

I am under Pickett"s charge

yet my mind is wild

and my heart seems to over beat,

there is a knot in

my stomach the size

of my fist,

so I think

of home

to calm down.

Virginia.

I watch my mother

hanging out

washing with

her thin hands.



I gulp and wonder

if I shall see her soon.

She died three

years ago.

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Ruth Lovejoy's picture

excellent piece really shows what the soliders went through.The thing is many who real about the civil war read general things but if they dug deeper they would be in shock to really know just how much they went through..I know I've done the reading..