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We see the desolation and death keeping step with the bloody track; we look upon sacked towns, ravaged territories, violated homes; we behold all the sweet charities of life changed to wormwood and gall.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “We see the desolation and death keeping step with the bloody track; we look upon sacked towns, ravaged territories…”
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Sumner vividly describes the horrors of war and its impact on communities and families.
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