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 Posted: Mon Sep 24th, 2007 05:06 am
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   Perhaps Sherman's men simply devastated property instead of killing everyone because they remembered Lincoln's speech about : "not breaking our bonds of affection", and heeding: "the better angels of our nature." ;)

 

Abraham Lincoln: First Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1989