I have in mind the genesis of an article about brothers and other relatives who fought side-by-side. Issues of nepotism that might breed resentment among other members of the company, and a reduction of combat effectiveness caused by one sibling who stopped to attend to a wounded or dead brother and thus endangered his own life and simultaneously diminished the fire of the unit could be considered. I am familiar with instances of the latter when a brother would escort a brother to the rear during the height of an action, despite regulations that assigned this responsibility to the Ambulance Corps and litter bearers. Then there is the grieving process, hard to do in the midst of battle, but how did it affect the psyche of the surviving sibling in the battles to come? Of course there were plenty of brothers together in the Union army, but I would think it more prevalent in the Confederate army. Welcome comments, suggestions and examples. Surely some authors have touched on this topic, but I wonder if anyone has made a focused attempt to cover it. It would have have been a major issue in the Civil War, but not unique to it; one thinks of the Sullivan brothers in WW II, whose loss compelled a policy change of placing siblings together on the same vessel. Then there were father/son, uncle/nephew, etc. relationships to consider as well.