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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gut Trader who wrote (2541)	9/15/2001 7:16:00 PM
From: Mick Mørmøny	Respond to of 27666

<font color=red> THE LONGEST NIGHT: A Military History of the Civil War by David J. Eicher A Narrative of Hell – A battle-by-battle account of the Civil War. Excerpts from a book review by Jay Winik: Some 620,000 Americans died, the equivalent of more than 10 Vietnams. And it is not just the overall numbers that are so jarring, but the toll of individual battles as well: at Antietam, in a single day there were 26,193 casualties, the bloodiest day in American history; by comparison, on D-Day American ground forces suffered just 4,900 men dead or wounded. To hold Guadalcanal in the Pacific, United States forces sacrificed some 6,500 men over six months of ground combat; at Cold Harbor, U.S. Grant mounted a frontal assault that lost 7,000 men in an hour, most in the first 10 minutes. It is no wonder that the Civil War battles continue to fascinate and provoke.