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Title: Andersonville : a story of Rebel military prisons, fifteen months a guest of the so-called southern confederacy : a private soldier's experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear, and Florence
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: McElroy, John, 1846-1929
Subjects: Andersonville Prison United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: Toledo : D. R. Locke
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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life. I do notdesire even justice on the still living authors and accomplicesin the deep damnation of their taking off. I simply ask thatthe great sacrifices of my dead comrades shall not be sufferedto pass unregarded to irrevocable oblivion; that the example oftheir heroic self-abnegation shall not be lost, but the lesson itteaches be preserved and inculcated into the minds of theirfellow-countrymen, that future generations may profit by it,and others be as ready to die for right and honor and goodgovernment as they were. And it seems to me that if we areto appreciate their virtues, we must loathe and hold up toopprobrium those evil men whose malignity made all theirsacrifices necessary. I cannot understand what good self-sacri-fice and heroic example are to serve in this world, if they are tabe followed by such a maudlin confusion of ideas as nowthreatens to obliterate all distinction between the men whofought and died for the Kight and those who resisted them forthe Wrong. f ^/f^!
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Thank God for rest, where none molest, And none can make afraid,—For Peace that sits as Plentys guest Beneath the homestead shade 1 Bring pike and gun, the swords red scourge, Tlif negros broken chains,And beat them at the blacksmiths forge To plowshares for our plains. Alike henceforth our hills of snow,And vales wlier. cotton flowers; All strean-8 that flow, all winds that blow,Are Freedoms motive-powers. Henceforth to Labors chivalry Be knightly honors paid ;For nobler tlian the swords shall be The sickles accolade. —Whittier» M > V THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARYREFERENCE DEPARTMENT This book is under no circumstances to betaken from the Building

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