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To: central_va

And Cold Harbor, but heck, they were forced conscripts anyway, probably fresh immigrants, so who cared, Grant didn’t.


47 posted on 09/24/2011 7:34:14 PM PDT by izzatzo (Palin2012, she's one of us.)
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To: izzatzo

Even Grant admitted that he’d messed up big time at Cold Harbor. During the last Union charge, many soldiers wrote their names and hometowns on pieces of paper and pinned this to the back of their jacket so they could be identified after the battle.


56 posted on 09/24/2011 9:28:32 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (Democrats: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.")
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