at sharpsburg for the confederates. there's a north carolina soldier who somehow had time to jot in his diary, my god, when will the sun go down? the sun seemed to hang in the sky. i mean, from the opening attacks, and we know the place, east and west woods, dunford church, when not fighting was over there were 8000 men on the ground in a square mile. and then it will shift to what we call bloody lane. the yankees will break through bloody lane, and who's in their front? james long streets staff, and d. h. lee, a major general run at 200 that he could find summer. they are going to counterattack with 200, or so. this is how close it came. then you have the collapse of the right wing, the only thing that saves lee's army is the arrival of hills division. what he asked his men to do is simply remarkable. and they did it. and what is also interesting about it as the battle was shifted from the north and through the center at the bloody lane, midafternoon, and jackson has been there, what's left of them are hanging on in th