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Title: Two boys in the Civil War and after
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Houghton, W. R. (William Robert), 1842-1906 Houghton, M. B. (Mitchell Bennett), 1845?-
Subjects: Houghton, W. R. (William Robert), 1842-1906 Houghton, M. B. (Mitchell Bennett), 1845?- Confederate States of America. Army Soldiers Soldiers Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Publisher: Montgomery, Ala. : Paragon Press
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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W. R. HOUGHTON. W. R. Houghton as a Confederate Soldierand After William Robert Houghton, whose thrilling and in-teresting narrations of his service and sacrifices inthe Great Civil War of 1861 to 1865 are publishedhereinafter, was an intense Confederate and believ-ed with all his ardent and enthusiastic nature in therighteousness of the Southern cause. He was amongthe last of the immortal thin gray line to yield uphis long cherished hopes of the final triumph ofConfederate arms on the fateful field of Appomatox. Buoyant and bright of disposition, alert in mentaland physical perception, brave and gallant in action,he was the ideal soldier with no selfish ambition forplace and power, but was consumed with an earnestdesire to achieve the independence of his nativeSouth. To him duty was but a way station on the ruggedhighway of remorseless war, and he far transcend-ed her demands in his enthusiasm to drive the North-ern invaders from the soil of his beloved South. It was such soldiers as

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