... was worse. The numbers were overwhelming. One by one we fell to the ground dying and wounded. I was pig stuck twice in the arm and once in the side. As I fell to the ground, I knew this would be my final resting place. I lay in the mud next to my fallen comrades waiting to die, I felt my legs ... raised as a reb tried to steel my boots. "Fred, come here! This Yank is still alive ... don't care. I just want the pie." As he gave me a huge piece of the sweat potato pie, he explained what he did in the camp. He used a bucket and shovel to collect the human waste until lunch time. After l...

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... , one that before this, was virtually non-existent . Though literary criticism had been taking place for years, it was generally disregarded and held as useless. William Wordsworth once said that, ""if the quantity of time consumed in writing critiques on the works of others were given to original ... employed"" (2103). By acknowledging this view, and then creating a rational argument against it, Arnold's essay helped to send the genre into a new direction, as well as to create a new respect for it. Arnold begins his argument by stating that, "The critical power is of lower rank than the...

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