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Originally Posted by Kaepernick
Everybody here should have heard of the Sullivan brothers. Being older, I already knew their story, but not their ship name.
But the whole premise of Saving Private Ryan is based on the Sullivan brothers and in fact the opening of the movie talks about them and then Congress changing the law so that brothers could not serve together in the same unit.
Then private Ryan being saved because his mother had already lost all her other sons in the War.
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The Civil War was horrifying in this regard. Units signed up by town, and would serve together. So the, whatever, 12th Ohio was ALL from Ohio (or nearly all), and many times the brigades/squads were from the same town.
So the 12th Ohio goes into combat, and suddenly an entire townfull of parents in Ohio gets the bad news a few weeks later. Parents losing multiple kids in one engagement, etc. etc.
Joshua Chamberlain had his brother with him at Little Roundtop, for one example.