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If any of my men kill prisoners, I’ll kill them. - Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Attribution: Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893), U.S. president. Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States, vol. II, p. 68, ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Diary (August 17, 1861). Union soldiers occasionally killed guerrilla prisoners in western Virginia usually alleging that they tried to escape.

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