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Every commissioned American Civil War officer was a student of the Napoleonic War and the massive casualties of battles like Borodino, Leipzig, and Waterloo. Why were they so shocked at the far lower casualties at Shiloh and Antietam?

by /u/Ersatz_Okapi in /r/AskHistorians

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