"Freedom!" their battle-cry,— "Freedom! or leave to die!"
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Poets from the United StatesPeople from PhiladelphiaPlaywrights from the United StatesUnited States Ambassadors to Russia and the Soviet UnionUnited States Ambassadors to Turkey and the Ottoman Empire
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"The Black Regiment", stanza 5, in Poems of the War (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864), p. 101.
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George Henry Boker
George Henry Boker (October 6, 1823 – January 2, 1890) was an American poet, playwright, and diplomat.
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