Henry H. Wells
Henry Horatio Wells (September 17, 1823 – February 13, 1890), was a Union Army general in the American Civil War and a carpetbagger who served as the appointed provisional Governor of Virginia from 1868 to 1869 during Reconstruction. He was defeated for election in 1869.
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“‘But where can we draw water,’
Said Pearse to Connolly,
‘When all the wells are parched away?
O plain as plain can be
There’s nothing but our own red blood
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—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)