“Six hundred fifty-five thousand Americans died in combat in the Civil War. At the time, the population of the United States was about 32 million. That means one in fifty Americans died between 1860-65—two percent of the total population. There are ten times the number of people living in the U.S. today, so that death toll would be equivalent to 6,550,000 dead in 2023. Everyone was affected by the Civil War. Everyone had loved ones who died. Everyone—in the North as well as the South….”
Major Leonard Duckman didn’t die in the war, well, he lost his mind, hair, teeth and changed (according to biased accounts), but he just may well have. He had leukemia which was probably from some agent something which they sprayed on the trees in New Guinea when they weren’t shooting up the place or bombing it. I didn’t really know him. He was always tired or in pain or under some spell. Smart. Handsome. Would have had a great legal career. Deserved better.
