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Grenville Dodge: “Our country has seldom been called upon to mourn the loss of so brave and valuable an officer.”

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Our country has seldom been called upon to mourn the loss of so brave and valuable an officer.
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Grenville Dodge
Republican · Iowa

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Dodge reflects on the significant loss of a brave officer during the Civil War.

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