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The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4,
by Various
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Title: The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Author: Various
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THE
CONTINENTAL MONTHLY:
DEVOTED TO
LITERATURE AND NATIONAL POLICY.
VOL. VI.--OCTOBER, 1864.--No. IV.
SOME USES OF A CIVIL WAR.
War is a great evil. We may confess that, at the start. The Peace Society has the argument its own way. The bloody field, the mangled dying, hoof-trampled into the reeking sod, the groans, and cries, and curses, the wrath, and hate, and madness, the horror and the hell of a great battle, are things no rhetoric can ever make lovely.
The poet may weave his wreath of victory for the conqueror; the historian, with all the pomp of splendid imagery, may describe the heroism of the day of slaughter; but, after all, and n