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to pour out their lives for nothing.
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While conversing with a young man yesterday who resides on the street where the Court House stands I learned many interesting facts concerning the rebels, their number, their purpose, and their spirit.
He said that the rebels maintained and a large number firmly believed that we were going to free their negroes. And so they felt as though they were fighting for their homes and their all. These two impressions I labored to convince him were entirely wrong. And it is plain they are the cause of the extant resistance which is made against our arms.