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• William Martin’s “Was the War Useless?” • Emily Stone Whiteley’s “The Small-Talk of a Great Affair” • Nell Battle Lewis’s “North Carolina at the Cross-Roads” • Claudius Murchison’s “King Cotton Is Sick” • Stories by William Martin, Emily Stone Whiteley, Nell Battle Lewis, and Claudius Murchison • Poetry by Robert Liddell Lowe, Richard Church, Geoffrey Johnson, and Francis Claiborne Mason