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The 20th Maine's bayonet charge on Little Rount Top at the battle of Gettysburg (lemmy.world)
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[–] drhugsymcfur@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

”They kept on insistin’ they wasn’t fightin’ for no slaves, they were fightin’ for their ‘rats.’ It finally dawned on me that what the feller meant was their ‘rights,’ only, the way they talk, it came out ‘rats.’... Then after that I asked this fella what rights he had that we were offendin’, and he said, well, he didn’t know, but he must have some rights he didn’t know nothin’ about. Now, aint that something?”