"It was not war, it was murder."
"The vast army of McClellan spread out before me. The marching columns extended back as far as eye could see in the distance. It was a grand and glorious spectacle, and it was impossible to look at it without admiration."
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Source: Daniel Harvey Hill (1899). “North Carolina”
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