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Updated: June 1, 2025

But directly, as a Mississippi regiment passed by, he noticed at the head of one of the companies an old man, almost as old as himself, his clothes torn, and ragged from long marching; shoeless, his feet tied up in sack-cloth and his old slouch hat aflop over his ears. But he did not complain, he stood erect, and gamely led his men into battle.

John Trotwood Moore - The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills