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A comment on The City Which Would Not Be Cowed: The Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

Re:The City Which Would Not Be Cowed: The Great Chicago Fire... by cafard on Friday October 22, 2021 @04:29PM (#28962349)
Somewhere or other Carl Sandburg repeats or invents a story of a Confederate general who happened to be in Chicago then, and telegraphed back to Atlanta "Chicago on fire, whole town burning, God be praised!"
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Re:The City Which Would Not Be Cowed: The Great Chicago Fire... by cafard on Friday October 22, 2021 @09:45PM (#28964889)
I find that the piece is called "They Have Yarns", and the Confederate mentioned was Robert Toombs.

There is also a curious reference to the number 42 some paragraphs earlier.

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