"What They Endured, What They Wrought"

I've read many posts recently about the Battle of Gettysburg and they all remind me about the new release "What They Endured, What They Wrought - Comparing Regimental Casualties at the Battle of Gettysburg".  All the reviews I've read are very enthusiastic about its content and accuracy.  It's available at Amazon.com at a very reasonable price.  Also...and this is important...the author, Kerry Hotaling, is donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale to benefit the Gettysburg Foundation.



This 150th anniversary of the most tragic battle to ever occur on American soil always makes me stop and reflect on the consequences of disagreement taken to the extreme. We are fortunate that the results were what they were and we can now live in relative peace. The current infantile posturing of our legislators points to how the failure to get on with the business of running the most powerful nation on earth underscores what spawns conflicts that can rage out of control.