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deal with the loss of her own mother

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and good citizenship

Carmichael resists the idea that there was "a common soldier" but looks into their own words to find common threads in soldiers' experiences and ways of understanding what was happening around them

Abe & Fido equiptment deal with the loss ofby Matthew Algeo In early 1861, as he prepared to leave his home in Springfield, Illinois, to move into the White House, Abraham Lincoln faced many momentous tasks, but none he dreaded more than telling his two youngest sons, Willie and Tad, that the familys beloved pet dog, Fido, would not be accompanying them to Washington. Lincoln was afraid the skittish dog couldnt endure the long rail journey, so he decided to leave the mutt behind with friends