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God free the israelites in egypt from pharaoh the king and god free us. Michael shaara award for excellence in civil war fiction wikipedia. A story of virginia during the war by mccaig, donald. It was necessary for jacob to leave not only to preserve his life, but also to save the godly seed. He and his sister, leona, study with a neighbor girl, sallie botkin, from sallies father uther botkin.
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