From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed May 01 2002 - 21:38:00 PDT
At 12:08 AM -0400 5/2/02, DDoyle9570@aol.com wrote:
>
>The length of the attacking line as it prepared for the charge, (lines 1 + 2
>+ 3) was 8,126 feet, or 2,708 yards, well over one mile (1,760 yards). The
>length of the Federal Second Corps defensive position (line 19) was 3,000
>feet, or 1,000 yards. The length of the Federal line defended by Harrows and
>Hays divisions of the Second Corps, where the charge reached the wall (23 +
>30), was 1,615 feet, or 538 yards. Thus the Confederate line at the point of
>attack was reduced to just 20% of its original length.
>
>While not downplaying the sacrifices of any of the men on any of these
>battlefields, I thought it worthwhile to give some statistics on both tragic
>sites.
But, at Omaha, men were blasted to small bits on the beach, churned
into the sand by the mortar and artillery rounds.
I guess my point is that the beach was a turning point in the war and
had an amazingly large amount of casualties for the area.
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