From a reader in SC: “We don’t need Julia Ward Howe running the damned war

effort; we need Bedfort Forrest! (‘War means fightin’, and fightin’ means

killin’,’ quoth that sage. ‘Let us die to make men free,’ wrote Howe by

contrast, though keeping her spotless Universalist self a fair distance from

all the dying she volunteered the bluebellies for.”