"...lightning"

What seemed thunder, and lightning were cannonades. Wind, and hail the rattling of musketry. It was as the "Wilderness". That most terrible of Civil War battles. Fought day through night to dawn.

This was no re-enactment no movie.

I was there heard it saw it was afraid. A forest set ablaze in an eternal midnight of cannon, and screams.

A dream.

This from my study of history, and events of recent days.