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Junior Chimp
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« on: November 26, 2005, 07:29:20 PM » |
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I beleive it was Sam Watson of Company H who stated (which I got this all from "The Civil War" and Shelby Foote):
"America has no east, no west, no north, no south. We can lugh at the rediculous notion we have a North and a South. We are one an undevided."
Mr. Foote stated, "Before the war people would say the 'United States are', but after they said, 'The United States is.' " Meaning, I would wager, it united us into a group of states who were under a government, not a govermment under a group of states.
The war united the nation as no event has since. Americans saw their country from Gettysburg to Vicksburg.
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