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( June 26th, 2017 @ 6:29 pm )
 
Challenge accepted: In my best Paul Harvey channeling, here is The Rest of the Story.

Just finished reading the letter. It was good to know that they had inflated body counts during the civil war as well. 35-40 Thousand Yankees killed seems a bit steep to me. I think this was the battle of Cold Harbor which lasted for 12 days and did cost Grant many good men. While is is not funny but tragic, I know that incoming lead always inflates the numbers. Almost as much as stepping in a hornet's nest inflates the number of hornets after you.

I do find the matter of fact recitation somewhat realistic from a soldiers point of view. In the crucible of the situation, he describes it like another day at the office. To do otherwise would drive him crazy. I would love to hear JM's memory of that battle a few years after 1864 when the embers are still smoldering.

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( June 26th, 2017 @ 3:09 pm )
 
Thank goodness, someone survived the war and got married.



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