We are constantly thinking of the great war … which which we think to-day as a war which saved the Union, and it did indeed save the Union, but it wa… - Woodrow Wilson

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We are constantly thinking of the great war … which which we think to-day as a war which saved the Union, and it did indeed save the Union, but it was a war that did a great deal more than that. It created in this country what had never existed before — a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union, it was the rebirth of the Union.