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Knute Nelson
 
Date of birth: 02 February 1843
Date of death: 28 April 1923
Country Of Origin: America
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" At present about a thousand men are quartered here. It is a beautiful sight to see so many men together drilling. "

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" But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here. "

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" Do not grieve for me. God will surely take me under his protection, not for my own sake, but for yours and the country's. "

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" Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this. "

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" However, you in Wisconsin are luckier in one thing. The war has not devaluated your paper money. Greenbacks are to be used as money, not devaluated. "

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" I am glad, yes truly glad, that the Death Angel has passed you by untouched this time, though he has not gone far from you for a victim. "

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" I know that money speaks more loudly than need. "

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" I must of course die sometime and what does it matter whether I die today or tomorrow or twenty years from now? "

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" I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth. "

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" In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable. "

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" It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated. "

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" It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught. "

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" Keeping a promise made before I left you folks, I will now take pen in hand for a little while and tell you about my experience of a soldier's life. "

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" Man is remembered by his deeds. "

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" Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie. "

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