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Page 117
... passed through its hind legs , the animal is hoisted up , and suspended by the feet . With a single stroke of the knife , the belly is ripped up ; hands are plunged into the puffed - up intestines , the greenish bile , the fat , and ...
... passed through its hind legs , the animal is hoisted up , and suspended by the feet . With a single stroke of the knife , the belly is ripped up ; hands are plunged into the puffed - up intestines , the greenish bile , the fat , and ...
Page 259
... passed sometimes over that forehead whose wrinkles had become furrows ; over that strange coun- tenance , where the laugh of old times was changed into a sad contortion . I recollect , as if it were yesterday , to have met the President ...
... passed sometimes over that forehead whose wrinkles had become furrows ; over that strange coun- tenance , where the laugh of old times was changed into a sad contortion . I recollect , as if it were yesterday , to have met the President ...
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... passed the great cemetery where ten thousand fresh graves are dug in rows . I have seen in the middle of these woods that city of the dead , where rise ten thousand white stones , all alike , each one bear- ing the name of a soldier ...
... passed the great cemetery where ten thousand fresh graves are dug in rows . I have seen in the middle of these woods that city of the dead , where rise ten thousand white stones , all alike , each one bear- ing the name of a soldier ...
Contents
THE DUEL BETWEEN THE PARTIES | iv |
FROM BOSTON TO NIAGARA | v |
DETROIT AND CHICAGO | vi |
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References to this book
Civil War Firsts: The Legacies of America's Bloodiest Conflict Gerald S. Henig,Eric Niderost No preview available - 2001 |