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the night of July sixth – where the need was so great that there was no further cavil about age,” she wrote in her journal. In a letter to her sister dated July 8, 1863, Hancock wrote, "We have been two days on the field; go about eight and come in about six—go in ambulances of army buggies...I feel
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