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We knew that a half- million citizens of the Republic had laid down their lives--three hundred thousand in defending the Union, two hundred thousand in attempting to destroy it.
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Blaine acknowledges the sacrifice of half a million citizens during the Civil War, highlighting the human cost of the conflict.
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