“Cruel war—war at home, and in the perspective distance a man on horseback with a drawn sword in his hand, some Atlantic Cæsar, or Cromwell, or Napoleon.”
— Letter from Bangor, Maine (January, 1860); reported in The Historical Magazine, vol. 5, no. 10 (October, 1861), p. 313

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“Cruel war—war at home, and in the perspective distance a man on horseback with a drawn sword in his hand, some Atlantic Cæsar, or Cromwell, or Napoleon.”
— Letter from Bangor, Maine (January, 1860); reported in The Historical Magazine, vol. 5, no. 10 (October, 1861), p. 313

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.