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“Little did I conceive of the greatness of the defeat (at Bull Run), the magnitude of the disaster which it had entailed upon the United States. So short-lived has been the American Union, that men who saw it rise may live to see it fall.”

Quote by William Howard Russell

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William Howard Russell

William Howard Russell, born on March 28, 1820, in Ireland, and died on February 11, 1907. He was a renowned journalist of the 19th century, known for his war reporting. more

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