mandelbug definition: Noun (plural mandelbugs) 1. (computing) A software bug whose behaviour appears to be chaotic. ...
The bloodiest single day of battle was Antietam (26,134 casualties). The bloodiest battle, however - which lasted three days - was Gettysburg (51,112 casualties). July 21, 1861.
The preceding six weeks had seen the bloodiest fighting in the Civil War so far, at the carnage-strewn Virginia battlefields of The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. War, at the best, is terrible, Lincoln told the crowd, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and duration, is one of the most terrible. . . .