Gettysburg

Some Gettysburg facts:

--only a third of the dead died on the battlefield, the other two thirds died in the hospitals

--memorials exist to both Union and Confederate dead from the various states that contributed to the battles

--the women of Gettysburg were the nurses since they had the most medical knowledge, often as much knowledge as the doctors

--it took 300 tons of food to feed General Lee's army

--young soldiers at times had to do forced marches of more than 26 miles (a marathon) in a day

--for some of the soldiers, it was their first time on a battlefield

--a large cannon shell casing could contain numerous iron balls, each capable of going through as many as 10 men

--when gunfire began, if there was no wind to blow away the smoke, soldiers often couldn't tell who they were shooting at