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11. A strange OP given the facts.

Sun Jun 8, 2014, 05:06 PM

Jun 2014

The person at the link was executed for slave trading not desertion.

More soldiers were executed during the American Civil War (1861–1865) than in all other American wars combined. Approximately 500 men, representing both North and South, were shot or hanged during the four-year conflict, two-thirds of them for desertion.

http://encyclopediavirginia.org/Military_Executions_During_the_Civil_War

147 Union soldiers were executed for desertion in the Civil War. http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/23934

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A gracious man. Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 #1

WTF happened to the Republican Party?! JaneyVee Jun 2014 #2

It started for me, in the 1930's. Archae Jun 2014 #4

And then there was smallcat88 Jun 2014 #7

And we never won another war, due to lack of discipline...THANKS, LINCOLN!! TwilightGardener Jun 2014 #3

K & R BrotherIvan Jun 2014 #5

BrotherIvan, Shakespeare speaks to the eyes of the saidsimplesimon Jun 2014 #6

Yes and shows that WS had his great faults too BrotherIvan Jun 2014 #12

Shakespeare smallcat88 Jun 2014 #8

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Here is another rather remarkablle letter from Lincoln to Hooker: Faryn Balyncd Jun 2014 #9

A strange OP given the facts. former9thward Jun 2014 #11