re: The worst wars to be a US soldier in

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Antietam makes the other battles in our history look like peace rallies.

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I had two great, great uncles were with Company I, 9th Louisiana Infantry (Starke's Brigade) at Antietam. One lost an arm and returned home to St. Tammany Parish were he entered local, then state, politics. He eventually was declared insane (now known as PTSD) and died at the Louisiana War Veterans' Home in the early 1890's. The other uncle rejoined the Confederate cause as part of Ogden's Cavalry and bushwhacked around the southern part of the Florida Parishes and ultimately surrendered in Citronelle, Alabama. He died in a train wreck coming home from a reunion of Confederate soldiers. I've also been told he was pushed in front of a moving train in Abita Springs.


Some of Starke's Brigade killed at Antietam:

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