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“All young men of suitable age [are] to be drafted, except those  with conscientious scruples against war.”

   I write you this letter, because I would do something at least in his memory--his fate was a hard one, to die so--He is one of the thousands of our unknown young American men in the ranks about whom there is no record or fame, no fuss about their dying so unknown, but I find in them the real precious and royal ones.... Poor son, I felt to love you as a son, what short time I saw you sick & dying there.

Walt Whitman, 1863 letter

Memoranda during the War

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