tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post9036077489192088856..comments2023-10-30T06:31:05.501-07:00Comments on MilPub: Down Among the Dead MenFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-28680882833847877932019-06-01T22:12:33.503-07:002019-06-01T22:12:33.503-07:00Only battlefield I've been to was Gettysburg, ...Only battlefield I've been to was Gettysburg, and the only reason I remember it was because of the class mates I was with found a slug near a tree...big one, too. We all looked at it, and the Park ranger asked us where it was found, we showed him, and he wrote in a little book, and took the slug.<br /><br />Never sunk in that we were goofing off on a field of death a 100 years earlier.sheerahkahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16694622087244891222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-64336680087933481982019-05-30T02:45:29.541-07:002019-05-30T02:45:29.541-07:00Although my guess is that many of them got theirs ...Although my guess is that many of them got theirs reinforcing failure at the Battle of the Crater, so an equally pointless way to buy the farm.<br />FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-64605002498800188352019-05-29T19:00:13.192-07:002019-05-29T19:00:13.192-07:00The Union Colored Troops buried at Poplar Grove go...The Union Colored Troops buried at Poplar Grove got a better deal than the dead of the 54th Massachusetts at Fort Wagner. Black and white troops were buried together in a shallow mass grave by the Confederates. And then the dead were butchered again when many short rounds from later Union artillery barrages on the fort landed amongst the remains. The Confederate Commander of the Fort said in his memoirs that <i>"the air was so sickening with the smell of death, that one could no longer stand to be in the fort."</i> mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09123137206598163451noreply@blogger.com