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Originally Posted by Amnorix
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.
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That does sound terrible. I never thought of that, but it is human nature to want to be with familiar folks. I can't imagine an entire town having most of their kids wiped out.
That is brutal.