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What shall be thought of the officer who, finding a fine law library, straightway packed it up and sent it to his office in the North?
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Whitelaw Reid
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Editor's note · Context
Reid critiques the actions of an officer who misappropriated a law library during the war, questioning the ethics of such behavior.
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