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that the soldiers sang all the time.
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It goes like this, and listen for its ironies:
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"We are a band of brothers, native to the soil,
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fighting for the property we gained by honest toil."
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Whose honest toil? Property.
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Well, for a yeoman farmer that lyric made good sense.
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And fifth,
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you can also argue that secession is deeply rooted in some--
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some have argued this;
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certainly Bertram Wyatt-Brown has and others--
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is rooted in this notion of a tradition of southern honor.
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The thesis that at the heart of the southern planter class,