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Originally Posted by Ret10Echo
PRB,
My unit portrayed 24th Michigan......Company B last week at the BGA Gettysburg event.
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Tough soldiers in that unit...had the highest casualty rate of a Brigade sized unit in the whole Union Army.
When my cousin David saw our relatives Civil War headstone in Burr Oak Cemetery in Michigan (Pittsburg landing/Shiloh) he became intrigued and did a family tree history that took him 20 years to complete then sent a copy to all of us.
He found our GGG Uncles grave site at Gettysburg as somewhere along the line that info about the burial site was lost.
That is the most amazing battlefield I've ever visited.
Wouldn't want to take a hit from a .58 cal soft lead minie ball round...must have felt like a base ball bat hitting you.