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He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward." Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.
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Shelby Foote, The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
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