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Excerpt from Life and Correspondence of John A. Quitman, Vol. 1 of 2: Major-General, U. S. An;, And Governor of the State of Mississippi
My aim has been to make them, like the man whose acts they recite, plain and frank, without pretension or parade. Wherever it has been practicable, I have preferred original letters to my own speculations, and thus the work may be considered an autobiography.
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