At a little distance lay the dismembered skeleton to which the skull evidently belonged.

It was doubtless that of some soldier who had crawled there while wounded, and sunk exhausted at the foot of a tree.

The bits of clothing covering the ground showed that either birds or wild animals had been busy with the remains.

Not far off lay another skeleton, disturbed and dismembered like the other.
Other traces of the conflict were visible, as I moved slowly over the field.

Here were scattered graves, each for a single person; there a large grave, that had received a dozen bodies of the slain.