Paraphrase practice

This is an excerpt from the NY Times review of the movie, Glory:"The attack on Fort Wagner, which is the climax of the movie, comes as close to anything I've ever seen on screen to capturing the chaos and brutality that were particular to the Civil War battles. Weapons maimed as often as they killed. Soldiers were so disciplined that they marched in firm lines into the sights of guns fired at point-blank range. Hand-to-hand combat was commonplace." 

My paraphrase of this excerpt: "At the peak of the movie, the battle at Fort Wagner accurately represented how a battle during the Civil war would look like. Basically, a crazy inhumane bloodbath. The Guns, cannons, and swords weren't always a fatal blow, often times horribly injuring someone. The soldiers had the restraint so that they didn't falter and forged straight ahead into the enemy's gunfire, despite it being an almost certain suicide mission. Hand to hand combat was also used very well."