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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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Gettysburg, Texas

Gettysburg's own citizens were justly proud of an impressive total of 15 cart wagon and carriage industries, 148 schoolhouses, 75 churches. There was no army department that was really in charge of finding, locating, categorizing the dead. Many battles had the dead buried by the freedmen, the freed slaves who accompanied Union armies.

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