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Confederate States of
America

"Let us be
certain that our children know that the War Between The States was not a contest for the preservation of slavery,
as some would have them to believe,
but that it was a great struggle for the maintenance of Constitutional rights, and that men who fought
Were warriors tried and true,
Who bore the flags of a Nation's trust. And fell in a cause, though lost, still just, And died for me and you."
J. Taylor Ellyson,
Confederate veteran and post-war mayor of Richmond, Virginia
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