north of theabas, crater. company k.er, and likely you had natives fighting against natives.s one company had [indiscernible] tribes in the regimen. is the one that gets me the most. " no air was starring in the crater. it was a sickening sight. men were dead and dying around us. blood was running down to the bottom where it gathered and pools before being absorbed by the clay. the slaughter became monotonous until it ceased a horrified." the dead and wounded were piled african, and native american stretching in their death throes. the confederate works were filled with the dead and dying. it was impossible not to tread on them when making one's way through the works. in the crater confederates found 133 bodies. confederates dug down to retrieve the bodies of their own blood hadound the penetrated the clay five inches down. bodies were piled up eight d. -- eight deep. there were hundreds of bodies in the area. three days later, a truce was called. outside claimed their dead. during the truce, 600 remains were buried. these remains would be reinterred in the 1930's into blandf