Three-fourths of our army is made up of troops who don’t own slaves, yet they are dumb enough, like me, to get themselves blown into sausage links in order to enrich men who are already rich. How did they get so dumb, you ask? The answer is simple. Most of them are illiterate. There are no newspapers or telegraphs where they live; some of them don’t even know a war is taking place. Then they wake up one morning and look out the window and see a regiment of blue-bellies burning their barn, shooting their livestock, and taking a shit in their yard. These kinds of experiences tend to make people
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