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Lilred
I always admire you lucky folks who can trace your lineage back so far.
The worst thing a soldier had to worry about in those days was a trip to the hospital. Especially a field hospital. Diseases were rampant and a wound on a limb meant almost certain amputation or worse.
Gangrene and dysentary were prevalent. As were lung diseases. Whenever a mass of people are confined to small places this happens. In animals it's known as kennel cough. Remember when you first started school, in the first couple of weeks after class started all the kids were coughing, hacking and wheezing?
You can be justly proud of your familys battlefield activities. I can only imagine what they went through.
My hat is off to them.
Best wishes, Bill
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