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« on: Monday 03 September 12 20:53 BST (UK) »
Yes, that actually would make a lot of sense. I am currently in the process of scanning it all over to my computer so i don't need to work with the delicate pages each time I look through it. Also, I figured I would share this interesting quote from it, showing his views on the commanding officers of the Confederacy. He seems to be quite an opinionated person, even so many years after the war.
EDIT: ALSO, I have while scanning these, I found another quote, where he actually says that 45 years have passed, so I suppose that would actually put it at 1910.
This was in response to the Siege of Vicksburg, which he was stationed at.
"I have been unable to understand why President Davis and his advisors and the head military of men of the Confederacy did not more than a year before the war ended, see their inevitable failure and find some way to have stopped the slaughter and ruin of 1864 and the first three months of 1865.
I know the answer, 'their honor was involved.' I cannot resist the reply, that pride and artificial honor ought to have been sacrificed rather than hundreds of thousands of men and homes and families, to which comes the ready answer, they were powerless to stop hostilities while they had armies in the field."