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THE HORROR OF IT -- CAMERA RECORDS OF WAR'S GRUESOME GLORIES |
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"Twelve thousand corpses were encumbering this river, among which were thousands of women and children. Navigation was all but impossible. Every moment the boat had to slow her way through a tangled, mangled mass of corpses strung and lashed together by their long hair. The river's banks were literally covered with them, and in the curves of the winding stream were to be seen dark putrid masses of human flesh and bone surging and swaying in the steamer's wake and wash." From "War's Hellish Panorama." ***
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