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To: Texas_Dawg
Learn something, Dawg. Let the seditious crowd be. The last thing you want is to stir them up.


192 posted on 09/30/2003 5:47:59 PM PDT by rdb3 (One shot is not enough. It takes an uzi to move me.)
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To: rdb3
Learn something, Dawg. Let the seditious crowd be. The last thing you want is to stir them up.

Indeed. Last time around, it got somewhat expensive when they were *riled up:*

Spring, 1864:
The Wilderness, May 5-7: 17,666 Union casualties
Spotsylvania, May 10 and 12: 10,920 Union casualties
Drewry's Bluff, May 12-16 4,160 Union casualties
Cold Harbor, June 1-3: 12,000 Union casualties
Petersburg, June 15-30 16,569 Union casualties

In addition to its dead and wounded from battle and disease, the Union listed:

Deaths in Prison: 24,866
Drowning: 4,944
Accidental deaths: 4,144
Murdered: 520
Suicides: 391
Sunstroke: 313
Military executions: 267
Killed after capture: 104
Executed by enemy: 64
Unclassified: 14,155

194 posted on 09/30/2003 5:58:27 PM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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