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HIS SHARE OF GLORY
THE editor not only got his hundred men but twenty over in case any should back out—or to begin a new company. And it was off to war for certain. I think those words of his sunk in. It was just in the lull when everybody, North and South, was tired of the war and when a hard push either way would win. And from the spirit of the men who enlisted, they were of the opinion that the war had lasted long enough, and it was time to give the push from the North.
It wasn't so bad as long as they played soldier in zouave uniforms and shiny arms. But when bread and coffee and meat had almost disappeared, when paper money was worth twice itself, when nobody was doing anything
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