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“Come then, soldiers of Christ, be of good cheer and fear nothing, [but] fight, I beseech you, for the salvation of your souls…If you should be slain here, you will surely be among the blessed. Already the gate of the kingdom of Heaven is open to you. If you survive as victors you will shine in glory among the Christians. If, however, you wish to flee, remember that France is indeed a long distance away.”

A lot of things in this book makes so much since today.

For example when he says:

Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.

I sympathize with the people of the south in the first two chapters of this book more than I could possibly imagine. Johnny Reb felt like they were being invaded and the aggressor was the north and Abraham Lincoln. I wonder where we’d be if John Brown hadn’t have been a martyr and the common person north sympathizing with each other over his execution. I wish we were taught both points of view in school...