down with their sabers. They lay with their feet together, their heads in opposite directions, but their blood-stained sabres still clutched tightly in death. In another place, Rummel found a Virginian and yet another trooper of the 3rd Pennsylvania. They, too, had fought mounted with their sabres until they finally grabbed onto one another and their horses ran from under them. Their heads and shoulders were severely slashed, and their fingers, “though stiff in death, were so firmly embedded in each other’s flesh that they could not be removed without the aid of force.” In addition, Rummel
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