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Adams, R. H. T., transferred to Signal Corps pro- moted to General A. P. Hill's staff, Captain.
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Abrahams, H. J., discharged by Medical Board, phys- ical disability.
Akers, E. A.
Anderson, J. G., promoted Lieutenant in Forty-fourth Virginia Regiment, Lieutentant.
Blackford, Benjamin, appointed surgeon in C. S. Army, Major.
Blackford, B. L., appointed Lieutenant of Engineers, Captain.
Berkeley, R. C., severely wounded May 31, 1863, transferred to Seventlı Virginia Regiment, Quarter- Master Sergeant.
Blackford, W. H., promoted Lieutenant C. S. Army, Lieutenant.
Blythe, W. A., wounded April 1, 1865.
Benson, A. H., seriously wounded May 31, 1862, re- tired, appointed Hospital Steward .:
Barnes, E. C., captured June 30, 1862, detailed as Clerk.
Boothe, S. C., wounded May 16, 1864, transferred to Twenty-fourth Virginia Regiment.
Ballowe, T. H., seriously wounded June 30, 1862, re- tired.
Barnes, C. F., detailed by Secretary of War.
Campbell, Wiley, transferred to another command, wounded May 5, 1862.
Connelly, W., transferred to Maryland Line.
Conner, F. M., transferred to Maryland Line.
Conly, J. H., accidentally wounded by explosion of shell; leg amputated, Sergeant.
Crumpacker, John, seriously wounded May 31, 1862.
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Cabell, L. B., promoted Lieutenant in Nineteenth Vir- ginia Regiment, Lieutenant.
Cabell, R. S., promoted Lieutenant in Forty-fourth Virginia Regiment, Lieutenant. .
Carver, J. M , wounded April 1, 1865; captured April 6, 1865.
Cash, C., a good soldier.
Dewitt, C.
Dabney, H., detailed by order of Secretary of War.
Eads, J.
Elliott, S. H., seriously wounded July 3, 1863, retired. Franklin, J. H., appointed Captain and Commissary, Captain.
Fulkes, S. H., transferred to Company D, Forty- second Virginia Regiment, captured ou special picket duty at Suffolk, Virginia, prisoner.
Franklin, P. H., captured June 30; wounded July 3, 1863, and May 6, 1864.
Franklin, Jr., James, seriously wounded May 5, 1862; wounded December 13, 1862; seriously wounded May 16, 1864, retired Lieutenant.
Ford, W. A., detailed in Engineer and Telegraph ser- vice by C. S. Government.
Goggin, J. P., wounded May 5, 1862, detailed with General McLaws.
Guggenheimer, Jr., M. discharged by order of Secre- tary of War for physical debility and myopia after- wards served in Quarter-Master Department in Western Army.
Gregory, W. S., wounded April 18, 1864, captured .. .. April 16, 1865. .
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Goff, J. L., Company cook.
Goodwin, W. L.
Hall, R. M., transferred to Forty-second Virginia Regiment.
Hawkins, S. M, seriously wounded September 17, 1862, disabled.
Holland, W. P., wounded June 30, 1862, appointed Quarter-Master Sergeant, Quarter-Master Sergeant Hawkins, R. C,, captured April 1, 1865.
Harris, H. M., (Merrimac) appointed Courier to General Pickett. Served on C. S. S. Virginia (Merrimae) in her fight with the Monitor.
Ivey, J. W .. seriously wounded at Yorktown in 1862, discharged.
Ivey, O. L., wounded and prisoner July 3, 1863.
Jennings, Jr., T. D., wounded September 14, 1862; wounded August 31, 1862, Sergeant-Major.
Jennings, J. H., captured June 30, 1862, detailed at Regimental Headquarters.
Jones, James.
Johnson, Minor.
Kinnier, James O.
Kean, R. G. H., appointed Chief of Bureau of C. S. War Department, Captain and A. A. General.
Kinnier, Samuel, captured April 6, 1865.
Kent, [R. A., wounded July 3, 1863, and May 16, 1864, transferred to Pioneer corps.
Kinnier, James F., discharged by Medical Board, de- tailed in Medical Department.
Lavinder, G. T., seriously wounded May 5. 1862, disabled and detailed
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Litchford, E. L., wounded August 1, 1862, captured April 1, 1865.
Lydick, J. D., Musician, Member Regimental Band. Lavinder, N. H., captured April 1, 1865.
Langhorne, G. W., discharged by Medical Board, physical disability.
Langhorne, C. D., discharged by Medical Board, phys- ical disability, assigned to duty in Ordnance De- partment.
Lucado, L. F., promoted Captain and Commissary, Captain.
Lewis, J. H., promoted Lieutenant of Artillery, wounded May 16, 1864, at Drury's Bluff, wounded April 6, 1865, at Sailors' Creek, prisoner, Lieutenant.
Litton, J. E. P., appointed Brigade Postmaster. Lipman, M.
Meem, Jr., Jolın G., promoted and transferred to Gen- eral Kirby Smith's staff, Captain.
Mayer, Max L. Moseley, C. A.
- Murrell, Thomas E.
Murrell, R. C., wounded May 16, 1864; captured April 1, 1865.
Moorman, J., severely wounded and disabled May 31, 1862.
Miller, A. H., discharged by Medical Board, appointed Hospital Steward, Hospital Steward.
Miller, T. C., seriously wounded June 30, 1862, disa- bled and retired.
Nowland, P. C.
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Nelson, W. S., severely wounded May 31, 1862; wounded May 16, 1864: captured April 6, 1865.
Nowlin. S. T., wounded May 5, 1862; wounded April 18, 1864; captured April 1, 1865.
Oakey, S. G., wounded August 31, 1862; captured April 2, 1865.
Oglesby, J. L.
Old, J. J., wounded May 31, 1862, and May 16, 1864; captured April 2, 1865.
Otey, K., seriously wounded July 3, 1863; severely wounded May 16, 1864; disabled and retired Jan- uary, 1865, Colonel.
Peters, R. T., wounded August 31, 1862, and May 16, 1864, Corporal.
Poindexter, W. W., wounded May 31, 1862; captured April 1, 1865, Corporal.
Pierce, R. C., wounded July 3, 1863, Sergeant.
Poindexter, W., captured April 1, 1865.
Preston, Thomas S., promoted Lieutenant of Artil- lery, Lieutenant.
Page, C. H.
Pitts, J. C., wounded August 31, 1862; detailed in Ordnance Department.
Percival, C. 1)., served mostly on important details.
Read, John A., captured April 1, 1865.
Smith, J. H., slightly wounded May 31st, 1862,
wounded July 3, 1863, captured April 6, 1865, Captain.
Spencer, C. H. transferred to Ordnance Department, captured April 1, 1865.
Siuith, John, slightly wounded July 3, 1863.
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Selden, W. H., transferred to General Kirby Smith's Staff.
Spencer, E,, discharged by Medical Board September 20, 1864, physical disability.
Stratton, A. B., discharged by Medical Board, physical disability.
Sumpter, J. U. H., slightly wounded May 5, 1862, de- tailed on Virginia and Tennessee Railroad.
Simpson, S. M., resigned in 1862, lieutenant.
Sandford, William, detailed by Secretary of War in Telegraph Department.
Snead, W. B., detailed on Provost Duty.
Shelton, G. W., transferred to Lee Body Guard,
Spencer, John.
Turner, S. J.
Turner, G. M., captured June 30, 1862, captured July 3, 1863.
Taylor, J. R. wounded July 3, 1863, surrendered with General Lee April 9, 1865.
Talliaferro, Van, slightly wounded May 5, 1862, dis- abled May 26, 1864.
Withers, W. A., captured April 1, 1865.
Williams, Jehu, captured April 1, 1864.
Winston, W. H. H., captured July 3, 1863.
Winston, C. J., wounded July 3, 1863, and April 1, 1865.
Wills, John, slightly wounded May 31, 1862, captured April 1, 1865.
Williams, J. M., wounded July 3, 1863, captured April 1, 1865, Corporal.
Wheeler, J. W., wounded and prisoner April 1, 1865.
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Ward, J. R. promoted Surgeon C. S. Army, assigned to Eleventh Virginia Regiment, Major.
Walsh, T. C., promoted Ordnance Officer, Fifth North Carolina Regiment.
Whitlow, W. H., transferred to Second Virginia Cav- alry.
The following members did not muster into service with the company, but entered the C. S. Army with other commands, as follows: Blackford, Eugene, as captain in Fifth Alabama Regiment, Major. McKin- ney, Robert M., as colonel of Fifth North Carolina Regiment; killed at Yorktown in April, 1862, Colonel. Moorman, M. N., as captain of Beauregard Battery, Major. Smith, J. B., as lieutenant in Beauregard Bat- tery, Lientenant. Strother, W. A., as lientenant in Company E, Eleventh Virginia Regiment, Lieutenant. G. K. Royall, as captain of a Fauquier company.
The company mustered into service-Commissioned Officers, 4; Sergeants, 4; Corporals, 4; Privates, 88. Total, 100.
The Company furnished to the Confederate States Army during the war the following officers:
Brigadier-General Samuel Garland, Jr .- 1; Colonels K. Otey and R. M. Mckinney-2; Majors Benjamin Blackford, J. R. Ward, Eugene Blackford, M. N. Moorman-4; Captains J. L. Meem, H. V. Harris, C. V. Cosby, Hugh Nelson, R. H. T. Adams, B. Lewis Blackford, J. H. Franklin, C. D. Hammer, L. F. Lucado, John G. Meem, Jr., S. D. Preston, J. Holmes Smith, R. G. H. Kean-13; Lientenants William
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Early, W. J. H. Hawkins, John G. Anderson, Wm. H. Blackford, L. B. Cabell, R. Stewart Cabell, James Franklin, Jr., W. C. Folkes, John H. Lewis, Thomas S. Preston, S. M. Simpson, Robert L. Waldron, J. B. Smith, William A. Strother-14: Total 34.
CASUALTIES AND DEATHIS.
Killed and died from wounds 38. Died in the ser- vice of disease 6. Serionsly and severely wounded 27. Wounded but not seriously 33. Total casualties 104.
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APPENDIX No. II.
BIOGRAPHIICAL SKETCHES OF DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THE LYNCHBURG HOME GUARD.
BRIGADIER-GENERAL, SAMUEL GARLAND, JR.
Samuel Garland, jr., was born in Lycnhburg on De- cember 16, 1830. He sprung from an old Virginia family, his great grandmother having been a sister of President Madison. His farther was the junior partner of the firm of S. & M. H. Garland, for many years a leading law firm of the State.
From his earliest days, the subject of this sketch was a lad of unusual force of intellect. Before he was five years old he could read with fluency and had written his first letter. At the tender age of seven he was sent to a classical school in Nelson county, where he kept a close correspondence with his mother in the form of a diary which he sent home every week and which narrated all his boyish sports and told his childish joys and sorrows. While at this school he had the misfor- tune to lose his father, but this loss did not interfere with his education, and when fourteen he was sent to Randolph-Macon College where he remained one ses- sion.
The following session he was sent to the Virginia Military Institute where he soon became one of the most prominent cadets. He was the founder and first president of the first literary society in that institution.
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and in recognition of his services, his portrait now adorns its hall.
After completing the course at the Institute, he went to the University of Virginia, where he matriculated in October, 1849. Two years later he graduated as a bachelor of law, and at once returned to his native city and entered on the practice of his profession. In this calling the training he had obtained in the literary and debating societies of the various schools which he liad attended, stood him in good stead, and in a short time he impressed himself on those with whom he came in contact, as a man of unusual talent and information.
In 1856 Mr. Garland married Miss Eliza Campbell Meem, youngest daughter of John G. Meem, Esq., of Lynchburg. The wedding was one of the most bril- liant social events ever seen in Lynchburg, - and was long remembered. After his wedding Mr. Garland resumed the usual course of his life, and for the next three years was only noted as a learned and skilful lawyer and a polished, genial gentleman.
His life from 1859 has largely been told in the pre- ceding pages. He organized the Home Guard, and was its first captain. Under his command it fought its first battles, for though soon made a colonel, his inter- est in his own company remained unabated.
His military life has been given as a part of the his- tory of the Home Guard. After the battle of Williams- burg, he was promoted to the post of brigadier-general, being put in command of a brigade of Northi Carolin- ians. This brigade he commanded until his death.
General Garland was not by inclination a military
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man. The petty details of discipline and of military life were distasteful to him, but he was one of those men to whom duty is paramount, and his duty was done, cost what it might. No labor was too fatiguing, no minutiae too tedious for him to perform if it lay in the path of duty, and no officer in the service was more thoroughly satisfactory than was he. General Garland was one of the men whose loss is felt by his community for a long time, and his name is worthy of a place on that long list of martyrs that Virginia has offered to her country.
REV. JOHN C. GRANBERY, A. M., D. D. (By A. H. Taylor, of Norfolk, Va.)
Among the honored names that appear on the com- pany's roll is that of John Cowper Granbery, preacher, soldier, scholar and now Bishop of the Methodist Epis- copal Church South.
Born in Norfolk, Virginia, December 5, 1829, he graduated at Randolph-Macon College in June, 1848, and entered the Methodist ministry where he served until the war cloud gathered at Manassas, when he entered the army as Chaplain of the Eleventh Virginia Regiment.
His career in this capacity cannot be better or more briefly told than in the following words of the gifted preacher and journalist, Rev. J. J. Lafferty:
"As Chaplain of the Confederate forces no claim has come forward to challenge liis precedence there for fidelity to liis commission. He marclied on foot with
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the men, ministered to them and was shot down by their side. He shared the lot of a common soldier in the field. He shirked no danger in the fight. The wound in the head that smote him down was reported as mortal, and he was left among the slain. He was captured and recovered, but with the loss of the sight of one eye."
In the autumn his church appointed him missionary to General Lee's army where he served until the sun- light of peace banished the hideous night of war at Appomattox.
The same fidelity and devotion to duty have charac- terized his course since, whether as preacher, professor in Vanderbilt University, or Bishop.
He now resides in Ashland, Virginia.
J. LAWRENCE MEEM, CAPTAIN AND A. A. G. (By R, G. H. Kean, Esq., of Lynchburg, Va.)
J. Lawrence Meem was the youngest son of the late Jolin G. and Eliza C. Meem of Lynchburg. He was born April 2, 1836. After the usual preparatory studies of the private school for boys, he entered the Virginia Military Institute in July, 1853. He gradu- ated with the class of 1856, at the age of twenty years. After an European tour, in 1858 he went to Brazil and obtained employment as an engineer on the Dom Pedro Railroad under the late Colonel Charles F. M. Garnett. When Colonel Garnett's staff was subse- quently broken up, Meen followed the fortunes of his chief and returned to Virginia, and entered the Univer- sity of Virginia in the fall of that year.
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He took a warm interest in the organization and support of the Home Guard, and when that company was mustered into service on the 23d of April, 1861, he was its orderly sergeant.
When Captain Samuel Garland was appointed colo- nel, and the Eleventh Virginia Regiment organized, Lawrence Meem was appointed adjutant of the regi- ment. No regiment ever had a better one. Prompt, thoroughly acquainted with his duties, and precise in the performance of them, his administration was thor- oughly acceptable to every good soldier in the com - mand. Colonel Garland was among the first of those recommended by General G. W. Randolph, Secretary of War, in the spring of 1862 for promotion to the rank of Brigadier-General. On his receiving his commis- sion he named Lawrence Meem as his assistant adju- tant-general, and the commission was promptly issued, with the rank of captain. This was just after the bat- tle of Williamsburg on the 5th of May, in which the Eleventh and Company G had suffered pretty severely. His career in the more responsible position of brigade adjutant was a brief but honorable one. On the 30th of May, 1862, in the battle of Seven Pines, after a day of gallant service, in which he had two horses killed under him, late in the engagement he was instantly killed.
General A. P. Hill in his report of the battle of Wil- liamsburg, said: "Adjutant J. Lawrence Meem, of the Eleventh, was indefatigable in his efforts to secure the victory and aided greatly the result." Major-General D. II. Hill in his report of the battle of Seven Pines
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says, speaking of Garland and his staff: "He (Gar- land) rendered the most valuable services, and was much exposed. His adjutant, Meem, was killed, and his aide, Halsey, severely wounded near me." Gen- eral Garland in his report of the same engagement, said: "It becomes my duty to pay the last tribute of respect to the memory of my assistant adjutant-general, Captain J. Lawrence Meem, whose conspicuous gal- lantry won the admiration of all who saw him, and added to the laurels which he had gathered at Wil- liamsburg and on previous fields. * By his death the service is deprived of a gifted young officer, and society of a favorite whom we shall long deplore."
Those who knew and served with J. Lawrence Meem will never forget the courtesy, cheerfulness, gal- lantry and genial spirits which made him ever pleasant in camp and on the weary march, fearless and to the front on the perilous fields of battle.
GEORGE KEITH ROYALL.
George K. Royall was born in Winchester, Va., on February 4, 1837. His father was the Rev. John J. Royall, of Fauquier county, and his mother was a niece of Chief Justice Marshall,
The boy was very delicate in infancy and his health was far from robust when his father removed from Winchester to the family seat in Fauquier. Here the habits and sports of country life strengthened him and gave him a considerable amount of physical vigor. When he was still quite young he was sent to a school kept
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in the neighborhood by a Mr. Pope, where his ambition was aroused and where he soon led the classes. At the age of eighteen he entered Princeton College, and maintained a good stand as a freshman; but during his second session there, his father died suddenly, and he was called home to attend to the business affairs of the family.
In October, 1857, he enter the University of Virginia as a law student, and in the summer of 1859, graduated with the title af Bachelor of Law. He shortly after settled in Richmond and was admitted to the bar of that city. He practiced in Richmond for nearly two years, with what success we have been unable to learn.
At this time the formation of volunteer companies was going on throughout the State, and Royall joined one under the command of Captain Joseph G. Gris- wold, with the understanding that he could withdraw from it whenever he wished, prior to being mustered into service. But his mother's business affairs becom- ing involved, he soon left Richmond and went home, where he at once formed a company of which he was the captain. In this capacity he served in the first battle of Manassas.
In the lull that succeeded this battle, his company was disbanded, and he then joined the Lynchburg Home Guard as a private. With this command he fought in the battles of Williamsburg and Seven Pines, the "Seven Days' Fight" around Richmond, and the second battle of Manassas. Under the faithful chaplain of the Eleventh regiment, he became a Christian, and he was not the man to do things by halves.
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In the second battle of Manassas he was killed by a rifle ball which struck him full in the forehead. His brother, who was a private in the Ninth Virginia cav- alry, saw him fall but was unable to get possession of his body, and so he was buried so near his home, with the thousands who lay around him, with nothing to mark his tomb but the loving memory of his comrades.
COLONEL KIRKWOOD OTEY.
Kirkwood Otey was born in Lynchburg on October 19, 1829. After the usual studies of the preparatory schools, he was sent to the Virginia Military Institute from which institution he graduated in 1845. Mr. Otey then returned to his native city and for the next four- teen years was engaged in business.
After the "John Brown" raid Mr. Otey was one of the associates of Samuel Garland, jr., who were nota- bly active in organizing the Home Guard. At its organization on November 8, 1869, he was elected its first lieutenant, and in this capacity left Lynchburg with the company when it left for the front. On the appointment of Captain Garland to a colonelcy, Mr. Otey succeeded him as captain, and served for some years in this rank.
Few men in the Confederate service were more gal- lant soldiers than was Captain Otey. In Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, he commanded the Eleventh Regiment and was wounded. In one of the cycloramas of this battle his picture is prominent. He was made colonel soon after the battle and commanded the
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Eleventh Regiment until the close of the war. He was again wounded at Drury's Bluff, which wound disabled him so much that he was discharged by the Medical Board.
Colonel Otey was active in the re-organization of the company after the war. He succeeded General John Hohnes Smith as captain and held his post until 1881, when he resigned, to the regret of every member of the command.
On February 19, 1862, he married Miss Lucy Dabney Norvell. Their children have been four in number, John M. Otey, jr., Norvell, and Kirkwood, jr., being now living. Their eldest daughter, Miss Mina, died in 1873.
GENERAL JOHN HOLMES SMITHI.
The subject of this sketch was born on August 12, 1838, and was the son of William T. and Susan ( Left- wich) Smith. At the time of the organization of the Home Guard he became a member of it as a private, but became first lieutenant on April 23, 1862, and about a month later became captain. He was in com- mand of the company at the battle of Gettysburg, in which battle he was wounded. For the greater part of the last eighteen months of the war he was in con- mand of the Eleventh Regiment on account of the disability of Colonel Otey. In the battle of Seven Pines he was severely wounded, indeed so severely that he has never fully recovered. During the closing days of the war he was captured at Sailor's Creek, and was held for three weeks in the Old Capitol prison in
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Washington and six weeks on Johnson's Island, Lake Erie, before being paroled. At the re-organization of the company he was elected captain. He is at present General of the State Militia.
WILLIAM SANDFORD. (By'his niece, Miss Marion Glass.)
William Sandford, standard-bearer of the Home Guard during the Civil War, was born in Fayette- ville, N. C., on the 11th of May, 1834. He was the son of John W. Sandford and Margaret Halladay, both of that town, and passed all of his early life there. On reaching man's estate, however, he settled in Raleigh, N. C., having made himself, contrary to the wishes of his family, a thorough master of the art of telegraphy. In 1858 he removed to Lynchburg and took charge of the Western Union office in that city. He joined the Home Guard when it was organized, and was ap- pointed color-sergeant, a position which his magnifi- cent personal appearance enabled him to fill with great dignity. After the company was ordered to the field he remained in active service for about a year, being then detailed for duty as a telegraphier. At the close of the war lie was ordered to Mobile in the capacity of superintendent of the offices there and still resides in that city.
Mr. Sandford was a man of superb physique, and was universally conceded to be "one of the most hand- some of his kind." Tall and beautifully proportioned, standing six feet two inches clear. and with superb
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chest and shoulders, he attracted unfailingly the admi- ration of all who saw him. His features were perfectly chiseled, his eyes, unusually large and piercingly black, had in them the depth of a fire incalculable. A long, silky beard concealed and at the same time lent a dignity to his face, making him an ideal.
Mr. Sandford has many relatives and friends in this city. His sister is the wife of Major R. H. Glass.
ROBERT L. WALDRON.
Robert L. Waldron was born in Pittsylvania county, Va., on September 24, 1838. His early life was spent in his native county, but in 1853 he moved to Lynch- burg, where he entered business, and was, we under- stand, more than usually successful.
At the time of the organization of the Home Guard, Mr. Waldron became a member and was one of those who went with the company when it first took the field.
Waldron was noted for his singular coolness and bravery on the field of battle. He was one of those men in whom the element of fear is entirely absent, and in him this courage often rose to the sublime. Among the many anecdotes illustrative of this trait, is one which tells that at the battle of Seven Pines he saw a wounded Alabamian lying on the ground between the hostile lines. Without a moment's hesitation, he leaped over the entrenchments and amidst the storm of bullets, picked up the wounded man and bore him on his shoulders within the fortifications.
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