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He was certain they were all going to be executed,
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at least the officer corps of Lee's army--none of them were.
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And let me read you a diary entry from a Northern woman,
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a great diarist.
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Her diary's hardly known, but man,
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her diary is almost equal to Mary Chestnut.
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I first encountered it in a manuscript
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at the American Antiquarian Society in Worchester.
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Her name was Caroline Barrett White.
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She kept a diary for years, decades,
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and her war-years diary is extraordinary.
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This is her April 10,1865 entry.