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August 2

22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during Maryland Campaign

Were all members and companies of the 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry present at the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Shepherdstown? Especially Company H.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 07:33, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The regimental band was dismissed by general order sometime in August. Private Robert G. Carter of Company H is mentioned as the major contributor to chapter XI of Henry Wilson's Regiment covering Antietam and Shepherdstown.—eric

Pedigree collapse

Are there any known examples of people whose parents are siblings of each other? Such people would have only 2 distinct grandparents. Also, their fathers are also their uncles, their mothers are also their aunts, and their siblings are also their cross cousins. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 19:58, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's pretty common in Ancient Egypt, Hawaii and many other cultures in history especially among royalties. Kameʻeiamoku and his twin brother Kamanawa comes to mind. Also Ptolemaic dynasty#Ptolemaic family tree--KAVEBEAR (talk) 20:17, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In fiction, you of course have Joffrey, Tommen, and Myrcella who were children of Jaime and Cersei Lannister, twin siblings, as well as many of the Targaryens, in A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin. Wikipedia has an article and section Sibling relationship#Sibling marriage and incest which could lead the OP interesting places. --Jayron 32 00:56, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We also have a Pedigree collapse article. Rmhermen (talk) 01:56, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Other examples might include the grandchildren of Adam and Eve. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 16:14, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The etymologies of "Adam" and "Eve" are interesting.[1][2] Also, Genesis contains two different creation stories, the first of which does not suggest that there was a single male and a single female to start the human race, but rather that the human race was created in one stroke. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:33, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

More information on Bugs's note on Genesis creation story can be found at Documentary hypothesis and Genesis creation narrative. The two creation stories in Genesis are by the "P" source (the first story, which is Genesis 1 and the first part of Genesis 2) and the "J" source (covering the rest of Genesis 2 and forward). --Jayron 32 16:43, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Just out of curiosity, do people here consider biblical stories to be "known examples"? EllenCT (talk) 12:31, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The OP did not indicate if the examples were known from literature or known from history. --Jayron 32 15:16, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

* Bus stop (talk) 16:35, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]