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spring he's convinced the war has transformed.
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He refused a furlough to stay and fight.
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He writes home, "I do not intend to shirk now
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that there is really something to fight for; I mean freedom.
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Since the 1st of January it has become more and more evident
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to my mind that the war is henceforth
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to be conducted upon a different basis.
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Those who profess to love the Union
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are not so anxious to preserve slavery,
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while those who are opposed to the war acknowledge
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in all their actions that its continuance
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will put an end to this accursed system.