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When I was a lad in a lonely New Hampshire village, in the memorable year of 1863, a great many fathers and uncles and older brothers were off at some fearful and dimly-comprehended distance, dressed in blue, and, as we reckoned it, fighting battles daily.
How brave they had looked one morning, as they left town, marching with fife and drum along the crazy sidewalk, and off down the "Depot Hill!"