"I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in, the cause in which I am engaged. I am willing, perfectly willing to lay down all the joys of this life to help maintain this government. Sarah, my love for you is deathless, it binds to me in mighty cables that nothing but omnipotence can break. And yet my love of country comes over me like a strong wind and bears me irresistibly with all those chains to the battlefront. The memory of all the blissful moments I have enjoyed with you come crowding over me. And I feel most deeply grateful to God that you and I have enjoyed them for so long. And now hard as it is for me to give them up and burn to ashes the hopes of future years when, God willing, we might still have lived and loved together and seen our boys grow up to be honorable manhood around us. If I do not return, my dear Sarah, never forget how much I loved you. Nor when that last breath escapes...
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