Here is the "Sunken Road" which first served as a brastwork for the Confederate center but soon became an open grave for hundreds of the dead and wounded. For over 3 hours the brave soldiers of the Confederacy of never more than 6,200 men held off a Union force of nearly 10,000. When the thin grey line finally collapsed the Union attackers had suffered too many casualties to pursue. Seeing the dead in the road an observer wrote, "They were lying in rows like the ties of a railroad ... words are inadequate to portray the scene."