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For years afterward, veterans continued to suffer from the debilitating diseases contracted during the campaigns. The casualty rate was thus easily over 25% for the 17 months of the war; the total casualties may have reached 35-40% if later injury- and disease-related deaths are added. In this respect, the war was proportionately the most deadly in American military history

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