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Photographer: Bernard Fisher
Taken: October 25, 2009
Caption: Sunday, April 2 Quotations
Additional Description: “It is absolutely necessary that we should abandon our position tonight.” General Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis

“The war will end now….The young men’s lives will be saved.” Elizabeth Van Lew, Union spy

“Upon you is devolved the duty of destroying your ships tonight.” Confederate Naval Secretary Mallory to Admiral Semmes

“We may never meet again.” The Reverend Moses Hoge to his Second Presbyterian congregation

“Smith, I may feel like a woman, but I can act like a man.” Elizabeth Smith, telling her husband, Governor “Extra Billy” Smith, she will take care of the household evacuation
Submitted: October 28, 2009, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p82406
File Size: 1.131 Megabytes

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