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Interview with John T. Mills

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Apr 11, 1865

If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything.

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Mar 26, 1865

Second. That the flag, when raised, be saluted by one hundred guns from Fort Sumter and by a national salute from every fort and rebel battery that fired upon Fort Sumter.

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Mar 16, 1865

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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Mar 17, 1865

Or, if one out of four will, for his own freedom fight to keep the other three in slavery, he ought to be a slave for his selfish meanness.

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