On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 23:37:46 -0500, Mike Johnston wrote:
> Speaking of history, Bob, do you know the last time five thousand or more
> U.S. citizens died on North American soil? I'm guessing it must have been
> one of the brutal battles at the end of the Civil War (Spotsylvania,
> something like that) 136 or 137 years ago.
>
> Would that be right? I can't think of anything since then that has claimed
> so many lives.
I'm not sure about the _last_ one, but Antietam was the _worst_ one
day. For the last, Spottsylvania is a good approximation. I'd have to
get out the reference books to be sure.
TTYL, DougF
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