2008-09
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Pamphlet, “Shall Congress Erect Statues at National Expense to Confederate Officers in Washington? Resolutions Adopted by the New York Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, October 6th, 1909. Confederate officers and the Right of Secession.” by Thomas Sturgis, 1st Lt. and ADC 1st Division, 9th Army Corps,January 1910, 15p. quarto, it begins: “...In presenting this pamphlet to my Comrades and Companions of Posts and Commanderies, and to such part of the public as it may interest, my purpose has been to place in permanent form some of the views and arguements which I believe are held by the great majority of those who supported the Union side during the War of the Rebellion...I have been influenced also by the hope that this may be handed on, to some extent, by the fathers to the sons and daughters, and to the yet younger generation which is already on the stage, taht they may know something of how the actors in the great war drama felt upon these subjects...” VG.
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