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So we made a thoroughfare for Freedom and her train , Sixty miles in latitude - three hundred to the main ; Treason fled before us , for resistance was in vain , While we were marching through Georgia . ( CHORUS ) . BEFORE THE FUNERAL .
So we made a thoroughfare for Freedom and her train , Sixty miles in latitude - three hundred to the main ; Treason fled before us , for resistance was in vain , While we were marching through Georgia . ( CHORUS ) . BEFORE THE FUNERAL .
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| Pealkiri | Life and Reminiscences of General Wm. T. Sherman |
| Autor | Thomas Clement Fletcher |
| Publisher | R. H. Woodward Company, 1891 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 nov. 2005 |
| Length | 479 pages |
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