Charles Sumner: “Under the sod of America, and under the waves of the Atlantic…”

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Under the sod of America, and under the waves of the Atlantic, Frenchmen were sleeping whose lives had been given to the support of our cause.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner honors the Frenchmen who sacrificed their lives for America's cause.

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