This point determined the principal theatre of the opening contest, and around it on every side, and particularly southward, was to be the Aceldama of America,-the dreadful "field of blood."
"Three Years in the Federal Cavalry"
Willard Glazier
I stood beneath the elm-tree on the Common, On which the Quakers have been hanged, and heard A voice, not hers, that cried amid the darkness, "This is Aceldama, the field of blood!
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thanks to Louis Bonaparte, this revered field of the Federation may in future be called Aceldama.
"Napoleon the Little"
Victor Hugo