Charles Sumner: “Their souls have been wrung as they beheld fellow-citizens brutally…”

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Their souls have been wrung as they beheld fellow-citizens brutally sacrificed, whose only crime was that they loved the Union.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner reflects on the tragic sacrifices made by loyal citizens during the conflict.

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