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Bettmann/Corbis Our Soldiers
In the West Virginia hamlet of Dry Creek, household after household delivered its sons to war.
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Our Soldiers
“They say in the Civil War there were two hundred thousand soldiers of sixteen years and under; eight hundred thousand of eighteen years and under, and only forty-six thousand of twenty-five and over.”
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War Notes From the Big Draft
“I know that this is not a war merely of newspaper headlines and shouting cities: it is the war of the whole of America. The touchstone of home has told me so.”
