The Impact of the Civil War upon Hoosier Society

W. Richardson

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The morning of May 3, 1865, found the Republican Indianapolis Journal in a pensive mood as it looked back over the Civil War years which had so recently closed. “We wonder at what we have endured, we wonder at what we have achieved,’’ it reflected. “We know as never before why we are blinded as to the future. Could we have . . . anticipated the great price we would have to pay for the maintenance of our integrity, we would have shrunk in dis- may from the contest, or entered upon it with hearts unutterably heavy.”

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Respectfully,
William
 
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