J. Howard Wert, A Complete Hand-Book of the Monuments and Indications and Guide to the Positions on the Gettysburg Battle-Field, B.M. Sturgeon & Co., 1886, p. 93. URL consultato il 2 marzo 2012.
«The heavy rains that followed the battle washed down and lodged in these [Valley of Death] places other corpses from positions higher up the flat. These bodies were never recovered, but gradually decomposed, whilst the bones were washed away or covered with rubbish.»
