Teddy Roosevelt: “It now rests with us in civil life to make good by our deeds the deeds…”

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It now rests with us in civil life to make good by our deeds the deeds which you who wore the blue did in the great years from ’61 to ’65.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt calls on citizens to honor the sacrifices of Civil War soldiers through their actions in peacetime.

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