We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies. Politician turned Union General Nathaniel Banks in plea he couldnt abandon an untenable position.
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Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.
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He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward. Jefferson Daviss future wife describing him at first meeting.
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