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Why did Union soldiers pin their names and addresses to their uniforms?
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∙ 6y ago
They did that so if they died they could be identified and the families told of their death. There was a great fear that they would be buried unknown and the civil war was before the introduction of dog tags.
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∙ 14y agoIf they were killed, the body would be identified
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