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She didn’t think a Southern Soldier would have ever laid down his life merely to prolong African Slavery. It was the principle of liberty they thought they were deprived of. This higher holier motive than keeping the African race in bondage carried them through Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Shiloh, and the hundred fields they stained with their blood, else why did they reject Lincoln’s proposal to keep slavery!

Harper is educated, and well-spoken. Her purpose is to tell her daughter “what manner of folks your fathers were.” She begins at the election writes, “Party spirit was something fearful at this time.”

The introduction is riveting. The photos are fantastic and I’m not even to the second page of written text yet. Ha!