But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here.
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I am glad, yes truly glad, that the Death Angel has passed you by untouched this time, though he has not gone far from you for a victim.Knute Nelson
The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.
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I know that money speaks more loudly than need.
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I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth.
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Keeping a promise made before I left you folks, I will now take pen in hand for a little while and tell you about my experience of a soldier's life.
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Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
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