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Originally Posted by Golf1echo
You are not wrong but 157 years later points to other motivations while ignoring the context at the time ( which as I understand had a piece in bringing the country back together).
Take away agendas, history might be better served by the following:
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That is well said! As with all history, there is more than one lesson to learn from the history of Confederate Generals and the Civil War.
Aug 5th 1962, Toccopola, Miss. Pontotoc Co., abt 60 miles S of Cornith.
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Dear wife, children, and my dear old mother. These lines leave me in tolerable health. Look a bowel complaint, as I think, drinking (something) water and imprudence in eating
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One thing soldiers learn and that is to obey their superior officers. 3 men has been shot in the 7th Ark, Reg. 2 deserted and 1 refused to obey.
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John, Lucy's brother is about 5 miles off. John Jameson is said to be 40 miles of us. Sister Mary wrote that JT Trice to march 125 miles on foot.
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Milk is full of horse flies, camp infested.
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It is disgusting to see the advantages the Captains and Lieutenants have.
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the Government is robbed and swindled
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Zach Trice son was sick and jumped out of a double story house and killed
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Soldiering is a very disagreeable life for me
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Misery described by 44 year old Private and farmer from Stephens, Arkansas