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great human heart of Washington beat sympathetically with his people. He understood that men of kindly feelings, fresh from all the tender associations of domestic life, “are not sufficiently fortified to stand the shocking scenes of war. To march over dead men, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, few men can endure such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride.”