Tony Horwitz - Confederates in the Attic (1998)

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During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he didn't believe it was buried there] and reburied it in a metal box.

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There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

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I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.

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