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- # SHERIDAN AT CEDAR CREEK
## Overview
"SHERIDAN AT CEDAR CREEK" is a chapter within the poetry collection [John Marr and Other Poems](arke:01KG8AJ5CWVMSM9AY2938E996H). This chapter, extracted from a plain text file, spans lines 2189 to 2311 of its source document.
## Context
This chapter is part of [John Marr and Other Poems](arke:01KG8AJ5CWVMSM9AY2938E996H), a larger work that is itself part of the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. It follows the chapter titled [SUPPLEMENT](arke:01KG8AJH7EV97HBYT86WXTTGVX) and precedes the chapter [POEMS FROM BATTLE PIECES](arke:01KG8AJJ0DPPYXBBTAHQ387QKQ). The content was programmatically extracted from the digital file [john_marr_and_other_poems.txt](arke:01KG89J19Y3FNVN5KWASY78BP4).
## Contents
The chapter contains textual discussions divided into three main chunks. The first chunk, [Chunk 1](arke:01KG8AK1E2RS43K7R5R32QXMEP), addresses concerns about the future of freed slaves and the country post-war, emphasizing the need for broad policy and caution against measures that could provoke racial hatred. [Chunk 2](arke:01KG8AK1E0ZHBR3D4750MKWHAK) continues this discussion, contemplating the challenges of reconciliation and representation in Congress following the Civil War, and the importance of forbearance from the North as the victor. The final chunk, [Chunk 3](arke:01KG8AK1E26NGKJ6EAX3D6JN9H), reflects on the sincerity of democratic faith and the need for impartial justice in a divided nation, concluding with a prayer that the "terrible historic tragedy" of the time may instruct the country through "terror and pity."
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