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Battle Cry of Freedom
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"Battle Cry of Freedom" Quotes

"Battle Cry of Freedom" provides a comprehensive account of the American Civil War and its impact on the United States.

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The war of the Union was still a war for Union, not yet a war for freedom.

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The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things.

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The American Civil War was the most deadly and arguably the first modern war.

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The Civil War was the turning point in the making of modern America.

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The Civil War was a social and economic revolution.

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The Civil War was the climax of the age of democratic revolution.

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The Civil War was the second American Revolution, and the Emancipation Proclamation was the revolution's moral climax.

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The Civil War turned hundreds of thousands of slaves into the masters of their own fate.

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The Civil War was a crucible in which the American nation was reforged.

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The Civil War was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.

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