Soldiers, soldiers soldiers, you meet everywhere about the city, often superb looking men, though invalids dress'd in worn uniforms, and carrying canes or crutches. I often have talks with them, occasionally quite long and interesting.

(Specimen Days: Soldiers and Talks 734)
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Kearney's men wounded at Fredericksburg, May 1864.