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1860s newsprint

April 15, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)

 Among other incidents of the battle of Murfreesboro’, we heard of one the other day, in which a soldier observed a rabbit loping across the field under a heavy fire. “Run, cottontail,” he said, “If I hadn’t got a reputation to sustain, I’d travel too!”

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