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March 24, 2016

I recall reading once about a Civil War battle in which a massed Southern infantry assault was described.

In it, the Confederates faced such a dense enfilade of union grapeshot they were said to have marched hunched forward as if walking into a heavy rain.
I always remembered that. Not so much for the misery those northern troops secured for both sides’ posterity, but for the image of men stoically bracing to bear what their bodies will not. It seems likely after today’s attacks in Brussels that Europeans are going to be forced into a similar posture. Walking through their lives as if into a heavy rain. Their liberal countrymen customarily retreating into intellectual temples, where white malfeasance always drives the brown fist, and no dead are mourned as intensely as a phantom backlash. They are now so practiced at preemptive weeping, it’s doubtful any additional tears could be wrung when the real thing arrives. A Backlash in Brussels | The Kakistocracy

Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 24, 2016 4:19 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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At the Gettysburg Museum there are 100's of examples of cannon balls and bullets that welded themselves together in mid-air. Those are just the ones they found.

Think - most of the firearms in that war were single shot and needed reloaded for the 2nd shot. So it's not like they had machine guns that sprayed everywhere. Yes, they had the gattlings but you know what I mean.

Course, with them big assed 58 calibers it was hard to miss an incoming bullet.

I've read that the medical field makes it greatest advances during war times.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 24, 2016 6:32 PM

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