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Re: "Encouragement to Fat Volunteers"

I have read that in many cases you could tell the difference in Confederate and Union soldiers corpses on battlefields by their size. It was not that the Union soldier was not trim but that the Confederate soldiers were almost always short on beans and biscuits.

In any event I would bet some "heavyweights" entered service and lost a lot of weight soon there after. I keep seeing images of the character "Oxburger" as played by John Candy in the Bill Murray movies "Stripes". LOL!

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