‘ [147] not let us deceive ourselves,’ said Col. James Montgomery; a veteran Kansas guerilla, to the present writer, who had commented on the undersized and underfed men who had once been brought in as prisoners, in Florida. ‘There are no soldiers in the world more formidable,’ he added, ‘than those whom we have to encounter.’ Should this reunited nation ever be unfortunate enough to be entangled in a foreign war, there will be an inestimable value in the mutual respect and confidence which were fought out by both North and South upon the battlefield. It is an inadequate compensation for those four years of sorrow, yet it is something.
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‘ [147] not let us deceive ourselves,’ said Col. James Montgomery; a veteran Kansas guerilla, to the present writer, who had commented on the undersized and underfed men who had once been brought in as prisoners, in Florida. ‘There are no soldiers in the world more formidable,’ he added, ‘than those whom we have to encounter.’ Should this reunited nation ever be unfortunate enough to be entangled in a foreign war, there will be an inestimable value in the mutual respect and confidence which were fought out by both North and South upon the battlefield. It is an inadequate compensation for those four years of sorrow, yet it is something.
Boston, Wright & Potter, 1895-96.
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