[Editor's note: These accounts are not the official reports of the battle. Instead, they are letters, remininscences, newspaper accounts and excepts from books written by the particpants, or others. As such there are a number of inaccuracies, but I have reproduced them exactly as written, including spelling errors. Even the official reports contain many inaccuracies. The numbers of troops, actions of individuals and entire units, casualties, and outcome of the battle are recorded by historians who have compared records and edited out the emotions and prejudice of those who were either confused or who had a story to sell. The value of these letters, remininscences and newspaper articles is in the personal recollections of incidents and actions of the writers themselves, and not in the dry statistics of warfare. Any comments in brackets [example] are made by myself to assist others in placing an incident or unit in prespective when the author does not do so. - Thomas R. Fasulo]
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