[jonascord]

Those soldiers weren't "placed in a ditch." That's where they died. That is a photo of The Sunken Road.

The Confederates used it as a breastwork to stop Mansfield's Corps, after Hooker's attack across the Cornfield, to the left out of the photo.

Mansfield came out of the woods you can see in the background of the photo. They shot a division to bits from that cover, until flanked, and, as I understand, the Federals got a 12 lb Napoleon gun battery at the end of the road and this was the result...

There is a 4 gun battery at the South end, today, aimed down the Road...

At the time the third photo was taken, Lincoln was already fed up with McClennan's Democrat fanny and was fixing to fire him, once more and for all time.

[Former Fetus]

That is a photo of The Sunken Road

Yes, that is the Sunken Road, which would be re-named Bloody Lane. But what you can see in the background doesn't look to me like but what was left of the Cornfield.