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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1905
Page
3
In 1861 I marched with the men in blue and felt a wave of patriotism. At Bull Run we camped and fought little, I was sick, wounded seven times, and spent years in hospital. I was discharged before the war ended and returned home to disbelief and questions from neighbors about my battle record.
A veteran recalls returning home to indifference and personal disappointment after a Civil War service marked by hardship and wounds. He notes friends question his battles, the heartbreak of a lost romance, and the modern fixation on Gettysburg as the war’s sole heroic moment. The piece ends with a question about future heroes and Grant.
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