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... what a strange time it was! Who knew his neighbor? Who was a traitor and who a patriot? The hero of to-day was the suspected of to-morrow.... There were traitors in the most secret council-chambers. Generals, senators, and secretaries looked at each other with suspicious eyes.... It is a great wonder that the city of Washington was not betrayed, burned, destroyed a half-dozen times. - M. E. W. Sherwood
Attribution: M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903), U.S. socialite, traveller, and author. An Epistle to Posterity, ch. 5 (1897). On spying in Washington, D.C., in 1862-1863, when it was a Civil War camp.

Categories: And Author, Civil War, Socialite, Traveller, Treason And Treachery, Washington, D.C.

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