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We all felt that the men about us were making history, and that we were looking at heroes, if we could only find them out. - M. E. W. Sherwood
Attribution: M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903), U.S. socialite, traveller, and author. An Epistle to Posterity, ch. 5 (1897). Remembering Washington, D.C., in 1862-1863, when it was a Civil War camp. Sherwood’s “favorite” of the men was General McClellan.

Categories: And Author, Civil War, Heroes And Heroism, Socialite, Traveller, Washington, D.C.

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