Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal …

Walt Whitman
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Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books. ✨ Walt Whitman (2012). Specimen Days & Collect, p.80, Courier Corporation
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Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books. ✨ Walt Whitman (2012). Specimen Days & Collect, p.80, Courier Corporation

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