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To: Pelham; BroJoeK
Well you can say that but it doesn’t make it so. It happened when those troops were firing a salute. It wasn’t in defending the fort.

No doubt if one of them died from being run over by a wagon, BroJoeK would regard that as the fault of the confederates too.

But to make it clear, none of those soldiers were killed in an engagement with the enemy. They were killed in an unfortunate accident.

352 posted on 06/30/2016 6:52:52 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp; BroJoeK

BroJoeK really is stretching to try to include those two deaths as part of the battle. Other than that his commentary has been pretty reasonable.

Most accounts of the battle will tell you that the sole battle casualty was the Union horse.

These other deaths were the result of an accident while firing a salute.


353 posted on 06/30/2016 6:59:53 AM PDT by Pelham (Obama, the most unAmerican President in history)
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