He fought at some of the bloodiest battles the world had seen: Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Antietam, and Gettysburg.
I will fight behind its flag, and if it should go down to defeat or disaster, I will go with it." I will always be true to the government of my adoption. "Captain Magruder," said the youth, "I came here as an exile, without home or country. She died soon after, and the boy made his way to America. The father wept and blessed them, and they parted, mother and son to leave their native land and their ancestral home for ever. He had been mewed up in a filthy hole for thirteen months, without once being allowed to wash or to change his clothing. The boy and his mother were permitted to visit him the day before the execution. For Poland had been carved up for the ambitious monarchs of eastern Europe to dine upon, most notably the able and ravenous Frederick the Great of Prussia, and the equally able and depraved Catherine the Great of Russia.
VENI VIDI DEUS VICIT FREE
His father had been executed by ministers of the Russian tsar for having taken part in a desperate attempt to free his native Poland from her grip. The youth was twenty, tall, and clean shaven. The government in Washington would not stand for it. It was March 1861, and Fort Sumter had been fired upon and seized by the men of South Carolina. They would be fighting to protect a venerable confederation of states from invasion by a hostile power.
The cause was just, as Captain Magruder saw it.
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