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"We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river."
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"I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted."
"There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments."
"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."
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"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."
"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."
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"But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here."
"I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth."
"The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us."
"Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi."
"Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this."
"It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated."
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