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#913 [#3Fan] The southern states got the bitch-slapping of all time. lol

There is a quote of -YOU-.

-YOU- were the one laughing at hundreds of thousands of KIA.

What are you laughing about? 110,070 Union combat deaths? 249,458 other Union deaths? 275,175 Union wounded? 634,703 Union casualties?

Perhaps 74,524 Confederate combat deaths make you laugh? 124,000 other Confederate deaths? 137,000 Confederate wounded? 335,524 Confederate casualties?

Perhaps a combined 970,227 American casualties makes you laugh.

Precisely how many heaped, dead bodies would satisfy you and The Lincoln?

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COMBAT DEATHS

Union         110,070  
Confederate    74,524  
Combined      184,594

Casualties


             Enrolled   Combat    Other   Wounded       Total              
Union         2,803.3  110,070  249,458   275,175     634,703   
Confederate   1,064.2   74,524  124,000   137,000 +   335,524   
Combined      3,867.5  184,594  373,458   412,175 +   970,227

Combat deaths refers to troops killed in action or dead of wounds. Other includes deaths from disease, privation, and accidents, and includes losses among prisoners of war. Wounded excludes those who died of their wounds, who are included under Combat Deaths. Ratio is the proportion of wounded in action to combat deaths. Note that the wounded figures do not include cases of disease. Under Percentages, KIA refers to the percent of those enrolled killed in action, Dead to the percent dead from all causes, and Casualty to the percent killed or injured. KIA/Month, killed in action per month, gives a fair indication of the intensity of combat

Notes:
* Non-battle deaths not known for these wars.
+ Confederate non-battle deaths and wounded estimated.
& Actually only six weeks of sustained combat.
^ There was only one month of combat.

Perhaps Edwin M. Stanton is in your pantheon of Lincoln lunatics.

Is it not strange that two of the people closest to Lincoln -- Stanton and Mary Todd Lincoln -- had peculiarly constituted, abnormal personalities? It's one thing to imagine Stanton's supervising the dressing of Lincoln's dead body. It's another to imagine him dressing and redressing the body of his first wife, who died in childbirth, until he was satisfied that she looked just as she did seven years before at the marriage altar. "She is my bride and shall be dressed and buried like a bride," said Stanton, who threw her valuable jewelry into her coffin.
Stanton also had acted strangely after the death of his young daughter Lucy two years earlier. After she had been buried about a year, he had the remains exhumed, placed them in a metal box made for the purpose, and soldered it shut. He kept the box in his bedroom for a year. This is the same Stanton who unleashed a smear campaign of malicious lies against William T. Sherman; who lied to Lincoln about Thomas T. Eckert’s availability to accompany him to the theater; who used underhanded and illegal tactics to bring about the hanging of Mary Surratt; who barricaded himself inside his office after being fired by President Johnson; and who described Lincoln as a long-armed baboon.

SOURCE: Lincoln and Booth, H. Donald Winkler, 2003, pp. 317-8.