[After Gettysburg] Lee's first thought was for his wounded. Imboden had reached Williamsport safely with the trains after a day and night march of unspeakable horror. He said years later that the cries, scream, and moans of the wounded, some of them entreating to be shot to end their misery, would remain vividly in his memory till death. At Greencastle, the citizens ran into the streets with axes and cut the wheels from under some wagons, dumping their pain-wracked loads into the road. Imboden galloped back into the town in a towering rage and arrested every man he could find and held them as prisoners of war.
(from They'll Do To Tie To, by Major Calvin Collier)
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