A Confederate Private Deprived of the "Good Death"
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A day after Christmas 1864, in the southern Shenandoah Valley, Pvt. Henry Lindsey of the 50th Virginia Infantry died. His brother-in-law, Wesley Smith, who served with him in the same company, had the said duty to write to his sister Polly with the news. Here's what he wrote.
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