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I found this piece to be extremely interesting. Reading her diary entries, you can almost feel the discomfort from having these Union soldiers. But then she writes, “It will be hard to treat them as I do other men but I know that it is my duty.” (pg 202) Her sense of duty won in the end and that seems very remarkable to me. –Kayle P | I found this piece to be extremely interesting. Reading her diary entries, you can almost feel the discomfort from having these Union soldiers. But then she writes, “It will be hard to treat them as I do other men but I know that it is my duty.” (pg 202) Her sense of duty won in the end and that seems very remarkable to me. –Kayle P | ||
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| + | I was most interested in her observation that "The men are very kind to the two yankees" whereas she finds it very hard to do even the most basic things for them. I disagree with Clare that the other soldiers would just see these Union men as "the enemy". From Bacot's words as well as from many other sources, we often see soldiers recognizing what they have in common with each other. Not every soldier could or would do this, of course, but many did. Knowing what the other side went through, these soldiers may have had real respect for one another. On the other hand, Bacot, who had never fought, would not have had that perspective, and so could not respect or care for the wounded enemy soldiers. --Rebecca W. | ||
== Maria Daly, 1862, Northerner in the South (New Orleans) == | == Maria Daly, 1862, Northerner in the South (New Orleans) == | ||
