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8. I advised General Sherman not to discard his cigarette in the dry brush of Northern Georgia

Mon May 1, 2017, 07:24 PM

May 2017

But the hot-head he was would not listen to me, and it burned nearly the entire city of Atlanta to the ground. He never made that mistake again.

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