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Where the men were Rebels, after the Mississippi pattern of earnestness, some new word must be discovered to define the extent of the hatred the women bore to the Yankee Government.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid comments on the intense animosity that Southern women felt towards the Northern government after the Civil War.
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