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Identifier: pictureofdesolat00trow (find matches)
Title: A picture of the desolated states; and the work of restoration. 1865-1868
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend), 1827-1916
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Southern States -- Description and travel United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Anecdotes
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., L. Stebbins
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d the like. Nodoubt this is true; if not, then life is a mockery, and hope alie. But the future, with all our faith, is vague and uncer-tain. It lies before us like one of those unidentified heroes,hidden from sight, deep-buried, mysterious, its headstone let-tered Unknown. Will it ever rise? Throucrh trouble,toils, and privations, — not insensible to danger, but braving it, — these men — *nd not these only, but the uncounted thou-sands represented by these — confronted, for their countryssake, that awful uncertainty. Did they believe in your betterworld ? Whether they did or not, this world was a reality,and dear to them. I looked into one of the trenches, in which workmen werelaying foundations for the headstones, and saw the ends of thecoffins protruding. It was silent and dark down there. Sideby side the soldiers slept, as side by side they fought. Ichose out one coffin from amoncr the rest, and thouiiht of liiii;whose dust it contained, — your brother and mine, although
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  • bookyear:1868
  • bookdecade:1860
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Trowbridge__J__T___John_Townsend___1827_1916
  • booksubject:Grant__Ulysses_S___Ulysses_Simpson___1822_1885
  • booksubject:Colfax__Schuyler__1823_1885
  • booksubject:Reconstruction__U_S__history__1865_1877_
  • booksubject:Southern_States____Description_and_travel
  • booksubject:United_States____History_Civil_War__1861_1865_Anecdotes
  • bookpublisher:Hartford__Conn___L__Stebbins
  • bookcontributor:New_York_Public_Library
  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:36
  • bookcollection:newyorkpubliclibrary
  • bookcollection:americana
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