My sympathy was with Mahone, as I felt that, whatever his view of the debt question in Virginia was, he was right on the reconstruction of the south and in opposition to the bitter sectionalism of the Democratic party in that state.
Sherman expresses his support for Mahone's views on southern reconstruction and opposition to sectionalism.
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