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Ykfc havo several violins 111 Camp and the boys, just, for variety you know, frequently while away the long, dreary hoars by joining 5a a Battalion dance. The boys find partners in their counterparts and all join in with the utmost grace and j earnestness. On witnessing such a spec-i fcaele, the first impulse is to laugh, the : second to weep. Laugh at a scene at once so strikingly novel—weep that the noble young patriots are thus deprived of the pleasures und benign Influences of female society, which ever chastens and purifies the sterner nature of in a n. This is one of the saddest aspects of the war, for, with the separation of the sexes, moral I degeneracy must ensue. Many of the boys will come back infected with the moral miasma of the C and, kind ladies, to you wo look to keep the institutions at home in a healthy moral tone, while we go
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Ripon Weekly Times
Ripon, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Sep 26, 1862
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