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...Gettysburg, 1863, reopened the road to Richmond. Had the Federals followed through, they might have broken the Confederates once and for all. Federal casualties...
...Civil War, Sherman opened the Atlanta Campaign at 44. ... Stonewall Jackson was 39 when fatally wounded at Chancellorville. . . . Grant was almost 43 at Appomattox. Lee, his opponent, superb in defense and not so good in the offensive campaigns of Antietam and Gettysburg...
...commentary is often corny and certainly this is not by any stretch the story of the whole Battle of Midway. But history would be a different matter if there had been a few such sketchy pictures of Austerlitz, of Jutland, of Gettysburg and Verdun...
Melancthon Fowinkle returned from the Civil War wishing it had never ended. It had cost him his right arm. But it had given him, a baldish intellectual, years of equality with his dumb, knightly brother Fairfax, who had died in the Southern apogee of courage, under Pickett at Gettysburg. Dealing death, and living with it constantly, was the most heartening experience Melancthon had ever known...
...whole 167-year history. At Pearl Harbor alone, more U.S. sailors were killed (2,144) than in all World War I (1,233). Total U.S. losses (2,370 dead) in 80 minutes that day exceeded any of the twelve big Civil War battles except the three-day battle of Gettysburg. Said the Army and Navy Register last week: "At Antietam, called the most dreadful day in American history, the total Union loss in soldiers killed was 2,108-considerably less than the casualties at Pearl Harbor...