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Remember, at that time, before the war, this country was a confederacy, not of states, but a confederacy of sections.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “Remember, at that time, before the war, this country was a confederacy, not of states, but a confederacy of sections.”
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Sherman reflects on the pre-war division of the United States as a confederacy of regions rather than states.
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