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Somewhere or other Carl Sandburg repeats or invents a story of a Confederate general who happened to be in Chicago then, and telegraphed back to Atlanta "Chicag
by cafard 5y ago
Somewhere or other Carl Sandburg repeats or invents a story of a Confederate general who happened to be in Chicago then, and telegraphed back to Atlanta "Chicago on fire, whole town burning, God be praised!"
- cafard 5y agoI find that the piece is called "They Have Yarns", and the Confederate mentioned was Robert Toombs. There is also a curious reference to the number 42 some paragraphs earlier.