re: #765 oaktree

Then again I read ACW history and wonder at the discipline of men willing to stand in lines a couple hundred yards apart and exchange volleys of rifle fire for an extended period of time. Iron (or Stonewall) Brigade indeed.

The charge of the 1st Minnesota at Gettysburg is one that still amazes me. 262 men - the smallest regiment in the Union Army - against a full brigade with momentum. 215 became casualties July 2nd, 1863, the largest percentage of loss for a single army unit in a single engagement in American military history.