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Re: Today - December 14th, 1862

Private Hunter remembered the boy: “He cowered behind a wheel of one of the guns, with eyes protruding, hands clasped, teeth clenched and a face wearing a look of horrified fright - face so white, so startling in its terror, that it haunted me for days after.”

Now there's a classic case of battle fatigue, or PTSD. Do you think General Patton would have slapped him? Stan

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