Short Story: The Battle Of Bull Run

Charley went into the war with the misconception that it was going to be a breeze and nothing serious. Unfortunately, he was sadly mistaken. He learned in many battles that war wasn’t all that it was cut out to be. He saw the horrors of war with his own eyes at every single battle. Charley left his home in Winona, Minnesota where he lived with his mother to go fight in the Civil War. He left with the belief that he was going to get in and nobody would get killed. He believed war was a fantasy. He went through training to become a soldier. He was younger than the others and had to lie about his age to be admitted into war. He thought the training was fun for a while, then grew tired of it. He came to the assumption that war was going to be very boring.

He thought it was going to be fantastic to get out and see what everyone was talking about. He arrived at the meadow where the battle was currently being fought. He was surprised by the sight before his eyes. Death was everywhere, bullets were flying people were falling dead or wounded and Charley was horrified by it all. He had never seen a battle; in fact he had never left Winona. This was a horrific sight to him. He had to shoot people which terrified him. Charley was unexperienced, therefore he shot blindly at the Confederate Rebels not even knowing if he hit them or not. After the first day he was very cautious about everything. When they went back to the battlefield the next day he was armed and ready to fire. This battle was slowly changing his perspective on the