The Major Who Would Only Bow to the Dead
Antietam, September 17, 1862. The field was a graveyard before the sun went down. Ethan Caldwell stood on the ridge above the cornfield and watched his regiment—the 24th Michigan—charge into a valley full of Confederate artillery. He had told them it would be quick. He had told them the guns had been moved. He had lied. The guns had not been moved. The first wave went down in thirty seconds....
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