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- GLC#
- GLC03921.21-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1907/06/04
- Author/Creator
- Mosby, John S., 1833-1916
- Title
- to Sam Chapman
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : + env.
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Scathing response to reunion speeches, especially one minimizing slavery's role in the war. Includes brief account of the Southern defense of slavery prior to the war, noting that he did not approve of slavery; rather, it was inherited as an institution: "I am as not honored of having fought on the side of slavery --a soldier fights for his country --right or wrong-- he is not responsible for the political merits of the course he fights in. The South was my country." [transcript available.]
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