The streets grew quiet when news of Gettysburg reached Clarksville, Tennessee. The 14th Tennessee regiment had left town two years before with 960 men. When the Battle of Gettysburg began, only 365 remained. ‘‘‘By the end of the first day there were 60 men left. By the end of the battle, there were only 3.
More from this episode
All quotes from this episode →More The Civil War (documentary) quotes · These quotes come from Wikiquote's The Civil War (documentary) pages and are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.