not at all surprising.

i read a book about the battle at pea ridge a couple of months ago. the battle lasted i think three days. in areas the trees were totally shot off. in other areas of no trees you couldnt walk around without stepping on shot.

it was a very very brutal war.

world war one might be worse though for carnage. i dont know if ww1 matches any of the one day casualties that we experienced in the civil war though.

england and france though lost almost a whole generation of their men in ww1. that is why they were reluctant to engage in huge man chewing battles in ww2.

tom w

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