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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: The All Time Marathon Bad News Fest

Many bodies were just left in those crevices or even thrown down them, which really wasn't going to help the smell very much. Out of sight, out of mind, but not out of nose at all. And there are a lot of descriptions of maggots. Again, nothing about wolves, nothing about stray dogs. The dogs were getting fat, not here. No, just flies and pigs. I think there were a lot of free range pigs or pigs that have broken down their stalls when the firing started. And they made out very well. Then the tourists came. There were three kinds of tourists, according to one officer who had charge of sorting them out and dealing with

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