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... fight - the one at Resaca de la Palma -he wrote : The fight was a pel Mel The Capparel is so dense Here they made a stand . affair evry body for himself . that you may be within five feet of a person and not know it . Our troops rushed ...
... fight - the one at Resaca de la Palma -he wrote : The fight was a pel Mel The Capparel is so dense Here they made a stand . affair evry body for himself . that you may be within five feet of a person and not know it . Our troops rushed ...
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... fight for such a cloudy abstrac- tion ? Could the uncouth Lincoln drag a whole nation into war on such a flimsy pretext ? In this , as in all wars , most of the actual fighting was done by poor people who had nothing at stake and who ...
... fight for such a cloudy abstrac- tion ? Could the uncouth Lincoln drag a whole nation into war on such a flimsy pretext ? In this , as in all wars , most of the actual fighting was done by poor people who had nothing at stake and who ...
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... fight for slavery and independence . . . and man is such a fighting animal by nature , that many thousands of these men , who had nothing whatever to gain by the war , did fight heroically for the Confederacy for four years . There was ...
... fight for slavery and independence . . . and man is such a fighting animal by nature , that many thousands of these men , who had nothing whatever to gain by the war , did fight heroically for the Confederacy for four years . There was ...
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MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FAntasies | 25 |
THE UNWILLING Soldier | 38 |
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