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Radio War Nerd EP 386 — The US Civil War, Part 15: Gettysburg Aftermath, Six Million Pounds of Rotting Meat

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The Chaos of the Civil War

There was a massive stinking mess on the Gettysburg battlefield, which covered 25 square miles. Northern commanders varied; they did have a quite large core of medics. Confederate soldiers wrote their names on a piece of cloth and pinned it to their uniform because they knew they were going to die. When you found a casualty, all you could tell was which side were they on.

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