[Reading comprehension] # ÇÑ ÁÙ¾¿ ÇØ¼® ÇÒ °Í! The place was Washington, D.C. The year was eighteen sixty-one. > It was a wet winter night. There were thousands of soldiers in the city. > The hospitals were full. > The field of battle was just across the Potomac River in the southern state of Virginia. > A woman lay asleep in her hotel room. She had had a long, hard day. > She had come to Washington to visit the Union troops. > The sight and sounds of the soldiers gave her no rest. > Even in her sleep she seemed to hear them. > She heard their sad voices as they sat beside their fires. She heard them singing. > They sang a marching song she knew. > It was a song about John Brown, an activist against slavery. > The song told about how his body turned to earth in the grave. > It told about how his spirit lived on. >
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