| 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. Our Civil War was a blot on our history, but not as great a blot as the
buying and selling of Negro souls. |
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