Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

Deborah Sampson
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  2. What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the...

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