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Mary Boykin Chesnut

31 July 1865 – 6 August 1865

2 August 1865

Dr. Boykin and John Witherspoon were talking of a nation in mourning, of blood poured out like rain on the battle-fields—for what? “Never let me hear that the blood of the brave has been shed in vain! No; it sends a cry down through all time.”
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