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chained_bear commented on the word the real war will never get in the books
I've heard this many times before, but never knew it was Walt Whitman who said it:
"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."
November 5, 2008