A British Perspective On The American Civil War

'The dead seemed to be piled heaps upon heaps': The four-year struggle between the North and South cost the lives of 620,000 soldiers and 50,000 civilians

The Britons Who Died For The Stars And Stripes: How Thousands Of Volunteers Gave Their Lives In America's Civil War -- The Daily Mail

Submarines, machine guns, bombs... and bloodshed on an epic scale. Now a new book reveals the suffering of soldiers who crossed the Atlantic to fight

At the height of the battle, sparks from artillery shells lit the underbrush, transforming the scrubby wilderness into a roaring furnace.

Men from both sides of the war were lost, confused and trapped together in a living hell as the scrub pine in the woods flared up with a sickening roar.

Soldiers could see their comrades waving ­frantically at them from inside the inferno.

The carnage was so horrific that sworn enemies joined forces to rescue the doomed men. Two implacable foes fought together to try to save a trapped youth. ‘The fire was all around him,’ recalled one.

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My Comment: Amazing .... 145 years later, the American Civil War is still being talked about, analyzed, and commented.