I think the real loss is even greater. Many didn’t die in the war but had considerably shortened life spans due to wounds and deprivations of the war. My great great grandfather never recovered from wounds and disease but died several years after the war ended.
My G-G Grandfather fought in Mississippi with thue 16th SC Volunteers (there was nothing “voluntary” about it. LOL). I have tried to find where he is buried to no avail. His last muster roll slip says “Sick in hospital-Corinth, MS.
Family legend says that he came home and died and was buried around here, but he is not with his wife in the family plot.
I always wondered if he had been counted among the dead.
No one ever considers the influence of the quakers on the political evolution of the USA. The Friends were considered traitors and were required to take loyalty oaths after the revolutionary war. They have stoked the fires of anti-christian liberalism from the time of Hicksite division when they had a schism and the majority adopted the stance that Christ was not divine or the center of their 'church'.
Quakers started the eastern liberal political tradition of dissension and have had a chip on their shoulder since day one.
Exactly. One of my gg grandfathers never really recovered from Shiloh, lived with his daughter and her husband until his early death. Reading between the lines, I think he had PTSD or 'shell shock'. He was an older soldier (almost 40 iirc) and I don't think he had the resilience of the younger men -- it's like my dad said about WWII - "when you're 19, you think you're going to live forever."