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Shots from here followed, and your beautiful fields bore testimony in blood.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Shots from here followed, and your beautiful fields bore testimony in blood.”
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Sumner reflects on the sacrifices made in the fields during the battles of the Revolutionary War.
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