Comrades will all remember how we made a rush for the old well to fill our canteens, when on the march. This is the way it was

Embalming building near Fredericksburg, where some bodies were prepared for sending home

Burial of the Union dead at Fredericksburg, December 15, 1862 (i.e. May 19 or 20, 1864. Working within the Confederate lines under a flag of truce. Our army had retreated, leaving our dead on the field