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CIVIL WAR

I was a soldier two weeks once in the beginning of the war, and was hunted like a rat the whole time. Familiar? My splendid Kipling himself hasn't a more burn't in, hard-baked and unforgettable familiarity with that death-on-the pale-horse-with-hell-following-after which a raw soldier's first fortnight in the field--and which, without any doubt, is the most tremendous fortnight and the vividest he is ever going to see.
- letter fragment to unidentified person, 1891

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In the South the war is what AD is elsewhere; they date from it.
- Life on the Mississippi

Our Civil War was a blot on our history, but not as great a blot as the buying and selling of Negro souls.
- quoted by Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch in letter to New York Herald Tribune, 19 Nov 1941



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