You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.
Rebecca Harding Davis
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The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.
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Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.
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