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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: early hours of the battle. These men began straggling in, singly
and in groups, the less seriously wounded supporting those who
limped and staggered. Soon a steady stream of them was
established, making their painful way into town toward the
hospitals, their faces black as negroes' from powder stains, dust
and sweat, their wounds unbandaged, blood drying, flies swarming
about them.
Aunt Pitty's was one of the first houses which the wounded reached
as they struggled in from the north of the town, and one after
another, they tottered to the gate, sank down on the green lawn and
croaked:
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