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of a large southern Pennsylvania family.
Bring this part up actually made me realize something I've never paid much attention to before. How similar both the Geyser and Hale families are. In both the parents are both still alive both at the beginning and end of the miniseries (I expect this wasn't uncommon really), there are five children, the eldest daughter gets married, three sons join the army, the youngest son is too young to join at the start of the war, and two of the children die.
Of course there are differences. For one the Geysers have four sons and a daughter while the Hales have three sons and two daughters. The youngest Hale son is shown joining the army after being told he's too young (I love his technicality for being over 18) while the youngest Geyser joins after First Bull Run (First Manassas). The Geysers loose two of their sons while the Hales loose a son and daughter. Jonas Steele becomes a widower when wife Mary (nee Hale) dies while Emma Bedell (nee Geyser) becomes a widow when husband Lester dies. Neither Mary nor James had fought a single battle before they died (although Mary did die because of fighting) while both Mark and Matt had been involved in several battles before their deaths.