When the veterans came home from the battlefields and their postings far from home 150 years ago, the toll of the war was felt from the hamlets of Maine to the Western shores of California. The nation would never be the same. According to CivilWar.org, the casualty rate was unfathomable:  620,000 killed, 476,000 wounded, and 400,000 wounded or missing in the conflict across five Aprils. The story of the returning veterans, who sought to restart their lives—and shape the nation’s destiny


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