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If the men of ’61 had failed in the great struggle for national unity it would have meant that the work done by Washington and his associates might almost or quite as well have been left undone.
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Roosevelt argues that failure in the Civil War would have rendered the achievements of Washington and his contemporaries nearly meaningless.
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