来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第14集 第14集》
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And we have those amazing letters he kept writing to his wife,在那些他写给妻子的信中 -
over and over and over.他一次又一次的提到 -
"I am called to save my country."我是为了保卫我的祖国而战 -
These buffoons in Washington don't know what they're doing.华盛顿的蠢蛋们却不知道他们在干什么 -
Stanton is an idiot."斯坦顿就是个白痴" -
And at one point he called Lincoln "a baboon."有一次 他把林肯叫做了"一只狒狒" -
That actually got into the public.当然这些后来大家都知道了 -
He was also make no mistake, and it's very important,他的话其实没错 反而很重要 -
especially when we get into '62--特别是当我们回顾1862年的历史 -
he was a pro-slavery Democrat.他是个赞成蓄奴制的民主党人 -
He was the farthest thing you could imagine in the Union Army他是北方联邦军中最不可能 -
from an abolitionist.称为废奴主义者的一个人