Siege of Petersburg/hatchers Run February 5%e2%80%937 1865

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“One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.”
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“We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.”
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