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Craig Kilby <[log in to unmask]>
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You took the words right out of my mouth.

On Oct 11, 2012, at 5:30 PM, Lowe, Richard wrote:

> One other thing: on the possibility that large numbers of returning Confederate soldiers died on their journeys home -- the fact that no one (or at least no one I've heard about) mentioned these deaths in a letter, a diary, a newspaper article, a U.S. Army document is revealing. If large numbers of soldiers had really died on the road home, someone would have surely said something about it. What a perfect opportunity to slam the Federals -- but, apparently, no one did write about it.


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