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Photographer: Brian Scott
Taken: October 10, 2008
Caption: Preston S. Brooks Monument
Additional Description: Ever Able. Manly. Just.
and Heroic;
Illustrating true Patriotism
By his devotion to his Country;
The whole South unites
With his bereaved family
In deploring his untimely end.

"Earth has never pillowed
Upon her bosom a truer son,
Nor heaven opened wide
Her gates,
To receive a manlier spirit."
Submitted: December 29, 2009, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p91196
File Size: 0.084 Megabytes

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