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(Jacob Rumans) #1
Saber-wielding Civil War cavalrymen
duel to the death over control of an
American flag. A few years earlier
such troopers were fighting together
against Native Americans out west.
LEFT: Secretary of War Jefferson
Davis in the mid-1850s.

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