The most interesting records of the great revolution just ending have seemed to me to be those portraying the spirit and bearing of the people throughout the South, just before and at the outbreak of the war.
Reid reflects on the importance of understanding the Southern people's experiences during the Civil War.
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In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.
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