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this report the achievement on which it is based ranks with “Marengo.”
Moreover, this same officer (Lieutenant-General Sheridan), many years after the close of the war, denounced several hundred thousands of his fellow-citizens as “banditti,” and solicited permission of his Government to deal with them as such.
May we not pause and reflect whether religion, education, science, and art combined have lessened the brutality of man since the days of Wallenstein and Tilly?
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Advance sheets of
Reminiscences of secession, war, and reconstruction,
by
Lieutenant-General
Richard
Taylor
.
A review of the
First
two days
operations at
Gettysburg
and a reply to
General
Longstreet
by
General
Fitz.
Lee
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