At 08:20 PM 3/1/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>You know, you're the second person recently to say
>this. While Antietam was the deadliest day in
>American history, Shiloh actually isn't even in the
>top 5 in casualties in a single battle in the Civil
>War. Gettysburg was the largest. Shiloh was the
>worst at its time - unprecedentedly bad. It is
>perhaps a sign of how incredibly bloody the Civil War
>became that it would be surpassed over and over and
>over again by the time the war was done.
Drats! Even as I was writing that, I was thinking to myself "I'm sure
that Antietam was the largest single day, but am I *sure* that Shiloh is
*still* the largest battle?" If I had thought about it, I should have
remembered that Gettysburg was larger....
JDG - Who still hasn't crossed Shiloh NB off his list of National Parks.....
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