Download or read book The Shades of the Wilderness written by Joseph A. Altsheler and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A train of wagons and men wound slowly over the hills in the darkness and rain toward the South. In the wagons lay fourteen or fifteen thousand wounded soldiers, but they made little noise, as the wheels sank suddenly in the mud or bumped over stones.