selfsacrificing

Updated: June 23, 2025

To make matters worse, there was a good deal of well-founded discontent among the selfsacrificing loyalists, both at the home and fighting fronts, because the Government apparently allowed disloyal and evasive citizens to live as parasites on the Union's body politic. The blood tax and money tax alike fell far too heavily on the patriots; while many a parasite grew rich in unshamed safety.

William Charles Henry Wood - Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray