The Spotsylvania Salient's Surreal "Statuesque Group of the Slain"
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Though post traumatic stress disorder was not a diagnosis or clinical term in the mid-19th century, there can be no question that Civil War veterans suffered from it. One shocking sight, on the battlefield of Spotsylvania, must have lingered in men's minds for a lifetime.
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