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Who of the north can say, that in like conditions, he would not have been a rebel?
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “Who of the north can say, that in like conditions, he would not have been a rebel?”
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Sherman challenges Northern perspectives by questioning if they would have acted differently under similar circumstances.
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