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Page 128
... taken to track Mrs. Bixby down and to authenticate that the let- ter is really by Lincoln and not by his secretary John Hay . These things must be felt in their contexts , where they speak to us with all the power of Lincoln's inspired ...
... taken to track Mrs. Bixby down and to authenticate that the let- ter is really by Lincoln and not by his secretary John Hay . These things must be felt in their contexts , where they speak to us with all the power of Lincoln's inspired ...
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... taken as a hospital , and all night wounded men were being brought in , their wounds dressed , a leg or an arm amputated as the case might require , and everything being done to save life or alleviate suffering . The sight was more ...
... taken as a hospital , and all night wounded men were being brought in , their wounds dressed , a leg or an arm amputated as the case might require , and everything being done to save life or alleviate suffering . The sight was more ...
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... taken on Crane as the Reverend Sewell had taken on Lemuel Barker ; had gone the rounds of the New York booksellers in an attempt to get them to stock the young man's Maggie , the then horrifying story of a prostitute which Crane had had ...
... taken on Crane as the Reverend Sewell had taken on Lemuel Barker ; had gone the rounds of the New York booksellers in an attempt to get them to stock the young man's Maggie , the then horrifying story of a prostitute which Crane had had ...
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3 |
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn | 59 |
Abraham Lincoln | 99 |
Copyright | |
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War Edmund Wilson Limited preview - 1994 |
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War Edmund Wilson Limited preview - 2019 |
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