To: SAMWolf
Outstanding, Sam. What these soldiers went through just boggles the mind. In addition to all that you have posted here, disease took more soldiers as bullets did. According to "Civil War Trivia and Fact Book" by Webb Garrison, the North had about twice as many deaths from disease as from wounds (224,850:110,100) and the South almost twice as many (164,000:94,000).
70 posted on
03/12/2003 7:35:19 PM PST by
Humal
To: Humal
Thanks humal, with medicine in the state it was back then a lot of minor wounds either ended in an amputation or became infected and lead to death.
76 posted on
03/12/2003 7:46:58 PM PST by
SAMWolf
(The French are cordially invited to come to Wisconsin and smell our dairy air)
To: Humal
Whoa! That's almost 600,000 combined. God bless them all!
83 posted on
03/12/2003 8:09:33 PM PST by
The Real Deal
(The United States of America Armed Forces are the finest in the world. Bar none!)
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