Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Ebenezer Swan” in chapter 12 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2:

... know of their being worse than they were before they entered the army; but fifty per cent. of them are better than they were before they entered; the other fifty per cent. remain about the same. Ebenezer Swan , Chairman Selectmen. I have said many times that not one of our boys came home morally worse than when he went out, and a large majority came home much better. Velorous Taft, Chairman Se...
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Ebenezer Swan 32 4 2 0 0 user votes

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