...not one rebel defection - not even Robert E. Lee's - cost young Adams a personal pang; but Sumner's struck home. (Henry Adams)

...not one rebel defection - not even Robert E. Lee's - cost young Adams a personal pang; but Sumner's struck home.

Henry Adams

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