And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Wounded Federals at a hospital in Fredericksburg following the Battle of the Wilderness
Those two guys were VERY fortunate!
ReplyDeleteThey weren't killed, and their limbs weren't amputated.
Maybe they were even lucky enough to be sent home?
Very lucky.
DeleteEveryone gave something, some gave everything (on both sides of the War of Northern Aggression).
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