Samuel Phillips day, American correspondent of the London Herald, writes to that paper as follows Having found universal profanity at the North, and piety at the South, he adds: “One officer informed me that, in giving orders for the first volley, which took such tremendous effect, he addressed his men thus: ‘ The Lord have mercy on their souls!
but fire.’
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