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"This is my country as much as the man that was born on the soil and so it is to every man who comes to this country and becomes a citizen... This is the first test of a modern free government in the act of sustaining itself against internal enemys and matured rebellion.
[A]ll men who love free government and equal laws are watching the crisis to see if a republic can sustain itself in such a case. If it fail then the hope of millions fail...
There is something in this land yet worth fighting for."
-- Color Sergeant Peter Welsh, "Irish Brigade," mortally wounded at the Battle of Spotsylvania, May 12, 1864 |