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Civil War
TENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
we first wrench the rails from the ties, then piling the ties together add as many fence rails or boards as are necessary to make them burn well, and placing the rails on the pile in such away that they will soon become red-hot, we finish the work by twisting and bending them so that they can never be used again. But I digress. We found Atlanta in flames in many places when we arrived, and In less than twelve hours it was a mass of smouldering ruins. Our clothing came near being consumed before we could take it from the storehouses,
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