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Two Wars: An Autobiography of General Samuel G. French
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Poor Rica! His fate was a sad one. A slave in name, he fled from freedom given him at Gettysburg, and wandered back to be a bondsman; and next when freedom was imposed on him by legislative enactment he spurned it, desiring only a home for life with the family that had treated him almost as one of their own children. I had almost similar experience with my own servants before and after the war.
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How noble the conduct of this man who had been in the army contrasted with the citizens who remained at home crying for vengeance!
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Washington Irving.
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The confiscation of the slaves by act of Congress is an acknowledgment of the just decision made by Chief Justice Taney in the Dred Scott case, that a slave was chattel, or personal property.
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I know a man North who paid $6,000 to a Congressman for his son's appointment. This was excluding the South from positions in the army and navy.
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Shakespeare's "Tempest," Act I.
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Appointed June 15, 1868.
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Lincoln's December proclamation says: "Such States shall be received again into the Union."
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