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John Brown’s work was brought to completion, was made perfect, by the men who bore aloft the banner of the Union during the four terrible years which intervened between Sumter and Appomattox.
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Roosevelt credits the Union soldiers for completing John Brown's mission during the Civil War, highlighting their importance.
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