February 27, 2009
A Fresh Look at the Lives of Civil War Soldiers Reveals the High Price of Diversity
A statistical approach to historical data has wide-ranging implications for social scientists
When the Union Army's 154th New York Volunteer Infantry disbanded, in 1865, its commanding colonel, Lewis D. Warner, gave a farewell speech that extolled the regiment's cohesion and solidarity. "I would not exchange my three years' connection with this little band," he said, "for all the rest of my life together."
The "connection with this little band" is an eternal theme of warfare.
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