CSPAN3 Politics Public Policy Today September 5, 2014
Killed or by their wounds. In other words, they died as a direct result of combat in the war. I did some calculations, and i found that in fact about 10 more of the army died of disease, sickness, and other causes that are not directly related to battle. They were simply a product of the very unhealthy nature of military camps, the inability to provide decent sanitation, these sorts of things, which diseases, if they got into an arm camp, they could go through and take a very heavy toll on life substantially more men died as a result of disease, sickness. And then theres a bit of colateral dam...
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