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Colonel Titus Vespasian Williams was born in Tazewell County, June 2nd, 1835, and died at the home of his son, Emmett, at Valena, Iowa, on May 7th, 1908. He graduated at the Virginia Military Insti- tute on July 4th, 1859. In the fall of 1859 he opened an academy at Jeffersonville and was conducting that school when Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861. He immediately organized a company of volunteers which entered the service of the Confederacy, with him as captain, and was attached to the 45th Regiment, Virginia Infantry. Very soon after entering the service he was promoted to the rank of major and transferred to the 37th Virginia Infantry. For gallant conduct in the seven days battle below Richmond, in 1862, he was promoted to colonel of the 37th Regiment and remained its com- mander until the close of the war. Colonel Williams was a splendid soldier and received wounds in several engagements.
war. Lieutenant Taylor resigned and afterward became a captain in the cavalry service.
Titus V. Williams was the first Captain of Co. K. He was a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, and soon after his election to the captainey of Co. K he was promoted to the rank of Major and was transferred to the 37th Regiment Va. Inf. After
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the seven days battle around Richmond, in the summer of 1862, he was promoted to Colonel of the 37th Regiment and commanded it until the end of the war. He was wounded in two or three dif- ferent engagements. After the promotion of Captain Williams, John H. Whitley, who was Ist. Lieutenant of Co. K, became Cap- tain. He served until the reorganization, in the spring of 1862.
Colonel Edwin Houston Harman was born February 13th, 1835, in the Bluestone Valley, Tazewell County. He was the son of Erastus Granger Harman, one of the first-born generation of that section of the county. On the 2nd of April, 1861, he was married to Miss Jennie King at the bride's home on Back Creek, Pulaski County, Virginia; and a few days thereafter entered the service of the Confederate States as captain of Company A, 45th Regiment, Virginia Infantry. In the spring of 1862 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the regiment. He was a daring and accomplished soldier and officer; and it was strangely decreed by fate that he should fall in battle but a few miles distant from the place where he won his bride three years previously. On the 9th of May, 1864, Colonel Harman was mortally wounded at the battle of Cloyd's Mountain, and died from the wound two days later. His dust now rests in a heroe's grave in Thorn Spring Cemetery, about six miles west of where he fell in battle.
He was succeeded by Captain Henry Yost, who commanded the company until the end of the war. Captain Whitley, after leaving the 45th Regiment, became a Lieutenant in Co. I, 16th Reg. Va. Cav., and served in that capacity until the battle of Monocacy in July, 1864, where he was captured. He remained a prisoner until the war ended.
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The 45th Regiment Va. Inf. was a fine body of troops, but was cut to pieces by overwhelming numbers at Cloyd's Farm in May, 1864, and in the following June was almost annihilated at the battle of Piedmont.
The next company organized in Tazewell was a cavalry com- pany, known through the war as the "Tazewell Troopers." This company was organized in the spring of 1861, and became Co. H, 8th Reg. Va. Cav. John C. McDonald was the first Captain. He served a few months and resigned. He was succeeded by Geo. W. Spotts who served a short time and resigned on account of ill health. T. P. Bowen succeeded Captain Spotts and served until he was promoted to major about the beginning of the year 1863. Captain T. P. Bowen was succeeded by his brother Henry Bowen, who served until he was captured near Winchester, in the fall of 1864. He was not released from prison until the war was ended. The Lieutenants of this company, serving the last year of the war, were 1st Lieutenant Abbott, of Raleigh County, West Virginia, 2nd Lieut. Joseph S. Moss; 3rd Lieut. Austin Peck, Mercer County, West Virginia. There were quite a number of Mercer County men who joined this company after its organization and served in it until the end of the war.
In May, 1861, there were three other companies of infantry organized, one of which became Co. C, 50th Regiment Va. Inf. This company was commanded by Captain Frank Kelly throughout the war. John D. Greever of Burke's Garden was a Lieutenant in this company and beyond all question it passed through a greater number of big battles than any other company from this county. They fought from Fort Donelson to Appomattox. Captain Kelly and the most of the 50th Regiment were captured a short time before the war ended.
The captains of the other two companies were W. P. Cecil and D. B. Baldwin. These companies were attached to the 23rd Bat- talion, Va. Inf., afterwards known as "Derrick's Battalion". Bald- win's Company was Co. D, and Cecil's Company Co. C. Capt. Cecil was promoted to major of the battalion and was succeeded as cap- tain by George Gose. Major Cecil and Captain Gose both resigned in the spring of 1862. Captain Gose was succeeded by F. M. Peery. Both Captain Baldwin and Captain Peery served until the end of the war. Oscar Barns and James H. Gillespie and William Witten
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were lieutenants in Baldwin's company. H. G. Pcery was a lieu- tenant in Peery's company and had command of the Sharp Shooters of the battalion.
In the early spring of 1862, there were four more companies organized. Two of these companies were attached to the 29th Regi- ment, Va. Inf. as Co. I and Co. H. Co. I was commanded by Cap-
Captain D. B. Baldwin was born at Christiansburg, Virginia, in August, 1832, and died at Bluefield, W. Va., in August, 1916. He came to Tazewell in 1857, and for more than twenty years was one of the most active and popular citizens of the county. In May, 1861, he entered the Confederate army as captain of Company D, 23rd Bat- talion, Virginia Infantry, and served faithfully and gallantly in that capacity until the war was ended. Captain Baldwin located at Blue- field, West Virginia, in 1885, when that now thriving city was nothing more than a village; and from that time until a brief while before his death he was actively engaged in the real estate business. He accomplished much in the way of boosting Bluefield, where his memory is cherished by many devoted friends.
tain Thomas Peery and Co. H by Captain Ebenezer Brewster. Cap- tain Brewster was promoted to major and was succeeded as captain by William Hankins. Both Captain Hankins and Captain Peery served until the end of the war.
The other two companies were organized as Independent Par- tizan Rangers. One of them was commanded by Captain William L. Graham and the other by Captain Elias V. Harman. The lieute- anats in Graham's Company were: 1st, W. E. Peery; 2nd, Joshua
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Day; 3rd, John Woods. In Harman's: 1st, D. H. Harman; 2nd, D. G. Sayers. These companies rendered valuable service to Taze- well County during the summer of 1862 by disorganizing, exterm- inating or driving away bands of freebooters that infested some of the border counties. In the fall of 1862, Captain Graham's com- pany was divided into two companies and attached to the 16th Regiment Va. Cavalry as Co. F. and Company I. Captain Graham was made Lieut. Colonel of the regiment. He was wounded near
Captain John H. Whitley entered the service of the Confederacy as first lieutenant of Co. K, 45th Virginia Infantry, in May, 1861. Owing to the promotion of the captain of the company, Lieutenant Whitley was made its captain a few months after he went into service; and he served in that capacity until the spring of 1862. He then joined the cavalry as a lieutenant in Co. I, 16th Virginia Cavalry; and served as such until he was captured at the battle of Monocacy in July, 1864. He was kept in prison until the end of the war. Captain Whitley was born January 1st, 1842, and died September 17th, 1918.
Winchester in June, 1863. and captured in Moorefield Aug. 7th, 1864, and was not exchanged until a few days before Gen. Lee surrendered.
Lieutenant W. E. Peery was made captain of Co. I. His lieuten- ants were Joshua Day (afterwards resigned), J. H. Whitley, John Woods, Samuel Thompson (killed in Maryland, summer of 1864) and Ferdinand Dunn. Captain W. E. Peery lost his right arm and was captured at the battle of Boonesboro, Md., in June, 1863. He was imprisoned on Johnson's Island until March, 1865. The com-
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pany was commanded by one of the lientenants until the end of the war.
Robt. H. Taylor was made Captain of Co. F. The lieutenants were William Bailey, J. H. Flummer and W. H. H. Witten. Cap- tain Taylor served with the company until July, 1864, when he dis- appeared and did not return. The company was commanded by Lieutenant Wm. Bailey until the end of the war.
Captain Jonathan Hankins was born in Tazewell County in 1840, and died April 8th, 1894. He organized a company of cavalry in the summer of 1862, and in the fall of that year his company was attached to the 16th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry. Captain Hankins commanded the company until the war ended, and was an excellent officer and soldier.
In the fall of 1862, Captain E. V. Harman, being past military age, resigned. His company, together with some State Line troops, was divided into three companies and attached to the 37th Battalion Virginia Cavalry, known as "Witcher's Battalion." Captain David G. Sayers, Capt. John Yost and Captain Crockett Harrisson (son of Sandy Joe) commanded these companies. D. H. Harman was 1st Lieutenant in Sayers' company. Some of the men in these companies lived in McDowell and Buchanan counties.
Another company was organized in the summer of 1862, and that fall it was attached as Co. C, to the 16th Regiment Va. Cav. Jonathan Hankins was Captain and served through the war. The
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lieutenants were Julius C. Williams, Milburn Linkous and Milburn Barrett.
There were three companies of cavalry organized in the sum- mer of 1863. Two of these companies formed a part of the 22nd Regiment Va. Cav. and were commanded, respectively, by Captains Balaam Higginbotham and W. W. Brown. Both of these captains served until the end of the war. Jesse Bailey was a lieutenant in Brown's company. The other company formed a part of the 10th Reg. Ky. Cavalry, and was commanded by Captain Elias G. W. Harman until the end of the war.
There was a company organized in the spring of 1864, com- posed of boys between the ages of seventeen and eighteen years and men between the ages of forty-five and fifty. This company formed a part of the 13th Battalion Va. Reserves Inf. and was commanded by Captain Samuel L. Graham. The 13th Battalion Va. Reserves was commanded by Lt. Col. Robt. Smith, of Tazewell County. This battalion became famous at the first battle of Salt- ville, fought Oct. 2nd, 1864. They held their ground, with the grim determination of seasoned veterans, against many savage attacks of the enemy. They received great praise for their heroic conduct from the veterans engaged in that battle. The conduct of this company is specially mentioned because it was composed of boys and old men who had never been under fire before and had but very little military training. John Rutherford was Ist Lieutenant in this company.
After the fall of Fort Donelson, General John B. Floyd retired from the regular Confederate Army. The State of Virginia com- missioned him Brigadier General of State Troops, and authorized him to raise a brigade from the classes not included in the conscript laws of the Confederate Government. Pursuant to this authority he organized a Battalion of Infantry as a nucleus to the brigade. This battalion was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Houn- shell, who was at that time a citizen of Tazewell County, and had been major of the 51st Reg. Va. Inf. This battalion was encamped at Wytheville for some time, in the latter part of the summer of 1862. They moved from Wytheville to this county and encamped for about a month in Abb's Valley. This battalion was composed of men from most all the European nations and men from every section of the United States. It was truly a motley crew, the
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equal, in that respect, to the French Foreign Legion. Some of the greatest criminals of the time were in it. Elegantly refined and highly educated gentlemen were there-two nephews of President Jefferson Davis, the Balfour boys, were eaptains in this battalion. Some of these men had been with Walker on his ill-fated expedi- tion to Nicaraugua. Some of them had been soldiers in the last war between Franee and Austria, and most all of them, had belonged to Wheat's famous battalion, the "Louisiana Tigers." This
Captain James S. Peery was the son of Harvey George Peery, and grandson of Thomas Peery, the pioneer. He was born June 6th, 1837, and died September 7th, 1905. In May, 1861, he entered the Confederate service as first lieutenant of Co. G, 45th Virginia Infantry; and in the spring of 1862 became captain of that company. Captain Peery was captured by the Federals at the battle of Piedmont, June 5th, 1864, and was confined as a prisoner at Johnson's Island until the conclusion of the war.
battalion had disintegrated sinee the death of their commander, Colonel Wheat, and the most of them had joined this State Line Battalion.
From Abb's Valley the battalion moved down the Tug Fork of Big Sandy to a point below Warfield and fought, successfully, some small battles while on this expedition. In the meantime there was great activity in organizing a battalion of State Line troops in Tazewell County. Several companies were enrolled, captains and lieutenants elected. These companies were organized into a bat- talion. But about the time of the organization the conscript laws
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of the Confederate Government were extended so as to include all the men in the State Line service, and it was reported that the men of this battalion scattered, in every direction, from their enramp- ment, the first night after its organization. The sole result of this organization was the dissemination of numerous empty military titles. The men, who had joined this battalion, were absorbed by different regiments in the regular Confederate Army.
Captain A. J. Tynes was not a native of Tazewell County, but was living there when the Civil War began. He entered the service of the Confederacy as a member of the Tazewell Troopers and served with that company until he was commissioned captain in the Field Commissary Department and attached to McCausland's Brigade. Captain Tynes was with his brigade in a number of campaigns and was with it at Petersburg and at Appomattox. He was born in Campbell County, Virginia, Nov. 29th, 1833, and died at Tazewell on Nov. 11th, 1914.
I have never made any effort to post myself as to the officers of this State Line Battalion, from the fact that they saw no service, while in this organization, to entitle them to be classed as soldiers.
In the spring of 1864 there was organized at Falls Mills a Home Guard company, composed of boys from 15 to 17 years of age, and men from 50 to 65 years old. This was done to protect the community against threatened invasions and outrages. Two Union Home Guard companies had been organized and were operat- ing in the counties of McDowell and Wyoming. These companies
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were a constant menace to the neighborhoods of Abb's Valley and Falls Mills. There were no regular Confederate soldiers left in that section of the county and these Union Home Guards had already committed several serious outrages on defenceless families, so it was up to the old men and the boys of the neighborhood to put on a bold front or else tamely submit to being robbed by a gang of cowardly thieves.
Captain John Thompson was a great-grandson of William Thompson, and was born in Thompson Valley, July 8th, 1837. He enlisted in the Confederate army in May, 1861, as a lieutenant in Co. A, 45th Virginia Infantry; and in the spring of 1862 was made cap- tain of the company. He commanded that company in all subsequent campaigns until he was captured by the Federals in the Valley of Virginia in the spring of 1865; and was confined at Fort Delaware until June, 1865. Captain Thompson was elected Sheriff of Tazewell County in 1867; and moved to California in 1870, where he died in February, 1882.
About 30 old men and boys met at Falls Mills and obligated themselves in the most solemn manner to defend the communities of Abb's Valley and Falls Mills against invasion by these Union Home Guards. Dr. R. W. Witten, an ex-army surgeon, was elected Captain, James H. Tabor, Ist Lieutenant, Theopholis Arms, 2nd Lieutenant, Isaac O'Donnell, 3rd Lieutenant, W. Seott Witten, Orderly Sergeant. These officers did not ask for commissions from the government, nor did they ask that the company be recognized as an organization of the Confederate Army. They realized that the
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Confederate Army was unable to protect them, so they determined to protect themselves, and the results show how well this company performed its duties. There was not another robbery committed by those Home Guards near Falls Mills or Abb's Valley until after the war ended. About a week after the war ended, one of these Union Home Guard companies appeared, just at daylight, in the
Captain James P. Whitman is the only Tazewell man now sur- viving who held the rank of captain in the Confederate army. At the beginning of the war he was a student at the academy of Col. Titus V. Williams at Jeffersonville, and was made a lieutenant in Company K, 45th Virginia Infantry, of which company Col. Williams was the first captain. Captain Whitman served as a lieutenant until the spring of 1862, when he enlisted as a private in the cavalry company of Capt. Wm. E. Peery, which later became a part of the 16th Virginia Cavalry as Company I. He was made adjutant of this regiment, and served as such until the end of the war. He was at Gettysburg, and in all the campaigns in which his regiment participated, including the retreat from Petersburg and the surrender at Appomattox. His surviving comrades pronounce him a daring and faithful soldier. Captain Whitman is the present Inspector General of the Grand Camp of Virginia Confederate Veterans.
mouth of Abb's Valley, at the homes of Wm. H. Witten and John Calfee. They took 10 or 12 horses and robbed the homes of all the household plunder they could carry away, and then made their escape as rapidly as possible. The Falls Mills company, before the war ended, had made several efforts to get in contact with this Union Home Guard Company, but was never able to catch up with it.
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LIST OF FIELD OFFICERS AND OTHER REGIMENTAL OFFICERS FROM TAZEWELL COUNTY, WHO SERVED IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.
T. V. Williams, Colonel, 37th Regiment Va. Infantry, wounded 1862-3.
Henry Bowen, Colonel, 22nd Regiment Va. Cavalry.
William Browne, Colonel, 45th Regiment Va. Infantry, killed Piedmont, 1864.
A. J. May, Colonel, 10th Regiment Ky. Cavalry.
Edwin Harman, Lieutenant Colonel, 45th Regiment Va. Infan- try, killed Cloyd's Farm, 1864.
W. L. Graham, Lieutenant Colonel, 16th Regiment Va. Cavalry, wounded 1863, captured 1864.
Stuart Hounshell, Lieutenant Colonel, 5Ist Regiment Va. Infan- try and Floyd's State Line Battalion.
Robt. Smith, Lieutenant Colonel, 13th Battalion Va. Infantry Reserves.
T. P. Bowen, Major, 8th Regiment Va. Cavalry.
Ebenezer Brewster, Major, 29th Regiment Va. Infantry.
W. P. Cecil, Major, 23rd Battalion Va. Infantry.
E. A. Holmes, Major, Staff Officer, captured 1864.
Rufus Brittain, Adjutant, 29th Regiment Va. Infantry.
J. P. Whitman, Adjutant, 16th Regiment Va. Cavalry.
Eli Steel, Adjutant, 22nd Regiment Va. Cavalry, killed 1864.
A. J. Tynes, Captain, Field Comissary Dept., McCausland's Brigade.
Dr. W. P. Floyd, Surgeon.
Dr. J. M. Estill, Surgeon.
Dr. Jas Peery, Surgeon.
Dr. Thos. Cecil, Surgeon.
A. J. May was a resident of Prestonburg, Kentucky, at the time the war began. He joined the 5th Kentucky Infantry at Preston- burg, and became Lt. Col. of the regiment. This regiment remained in the infantry service until late in the fall of 1862, when, from some cause, it was disbanded. The most of the men who had belonged to this regiment were organized into the 10th Ky. Cavalry. Colonel May became Colonel of this regiment. In the meantime, soon after the beginning of the war, he moved his family from
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Prestonburg to Tazewell, where he resided until his death, which occurred about forty years after the war.
If there is a neighborhood in Tazewell County that deserves a separate page in history for the part it took, and the sacrifice it made, in the Civil War, it is the section of the county around Falls Mills, inside of a radius of two miles.
There were thirty-seven men from this section who went into the Confederate Army; the most of them were small farmers or the sons of small farmers, two or three of them were mechanics- there was but one man among them who belonged to the slaveholding class.
These men were scattered among eleven different regiments. Eleven of them belonged to the 16th Va. Cav., six to the 29th Va. Inf., six to the 50th Va. Inf., five to the 8th Va. Cav., two to the 23rd Bat. Va. Inf., two to the 45th Va. Inf., one to the 4th Va. Inf., Stonewall Brigade, one to the 24th Va. Inf., one to the 54th Va. Inf., one to the 51st Va. Inf., and one to the 13th Bat. Va. Res. Inf.
Eight of these men were killed in action, five of them died of disease in the service, and thirteen of them were wounded, making a total casualty list of twenty-six, which equals a fraction over seventy per cent of all those in the service.
THIE NAMES OF THESE SOLDIERS WERE AS FOLLOWS:
Alexander Arms, 8th Va. Cav., killed near Staunton, Va., Nov. 1864.
W. J. Buckland, 50th Va. Inf., wounded at Wilderness, May, 1864.
Hugh Buckland, 50th Va. Inf., wounded at Chancellorsville, May, 1863.
John W. Buckland, 16th Va. Cav., wounded at Gettysburg, July, 1863.
Robert Belcher, 16th Va. Cav., wounded near Wayne, W. Va., Jan., 1864.
Obediah Belcher, 29th Va. Inf., killed at Drewry's Bluff, May, 1864.
I. Green Belcher, 23rd. Va. Inf. Battalion.
James Bargar, 29th Va. Inf.
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W. E. Butt, 13th Bat. Va. Reserves.
Bullard P. Compton, 16th Va. Cav., wounded at Moorefield, Ang. 7th, 1864.
Elihue Compton, 16th Va. Cav., wounded at Gettysburg, July, 1863.
Thos. Dangerfield, 16th Va. Cav., killed near Wayne, W. Va., Jan., 1864.
Ransom Dudley, 4th Va. Inf., wounded (lost arm), Gettysburg, July, 1863.
Frank Dudley, 8th Va. Cav.
James Dudley, 8th Va. Cav.
A. J. Dudley, 8th Va. Cav.
William Dudley, 29th Va. Inf., died in summer of 1862.
Thos. Ferguson, 50th Va. Inf., killed at Chancellorsville, May, 1863.
W. L. Graham, Lt. Col., 16th Va. Cav., wounded near Win- chester, June, 1863.
Jno. A. Hambrick, 29th Va. Inf., died in summer of 1862.
C. A. Hale, 8th Va. Cav.
Madison Mullin, 50th Va. Inf., killed at Chancellorsville, May, 1863.
Austin Mullin, 54th Va. Inf.
William Prunty, 23rd Bat. Va. Inf., died in spring, 1862.
Jesse Poe, 24th Va. Inf., killed at Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862. William Poe, 50th Va. Inf., died in summer of 1862.
Kiah Poe, 29th Va. Inf., wounded at Drewry's Bluff, May, 1864
Zach Poe, 16th Va. Cav., wounded in camp, accident, 1864.
David Shufflebarger, 51st Va. Inf., wounded (lost leg) at New Market, May, 1864.
Elbert Tabor, 16th Va. Cav., killed near Wayne, W. Va., Jan. 1864.
Andrew Tabor, 16th Va. Cav., killed at Moorefield, Aug. 7, 1864.
John A. Tabor, 50th Va. Inf., wounded at Chancellorsville, May, 1864.
Thomas E. Tabor, 29th Va. Inf.
Henry Tabor, 45th Va. Inf., wounded at Fayette C. H., Sept. 1862.
W. J. Tabor, 16th Va. Cav.
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Daniel Wagner, 45th Va. Inf., died in 1861.
George Williams, 16th Va. Cav.
The casualties sustained by the troops from all over the North- east corner of Tazewell County were almost as great as those sustained by the Falls Mills neighborhood. Many of these men died of typhoid fever, among them were Trigg Tabor, Augustus Tabor, Hugh Tabor, Jefferson Tabor (died in prison), Wm. Dillon, Ransom Prunty, David Crockett, William Crockett, Jordan Harless, Charles MeDowell, Giles Parker, Dennis Stowers, Geo. Doughton, Harrison Tiller, David Workman and Hugh Wilson.
Among those killed in action and died of wounds, were Thomas Dillon (son of Jeff), Robt. Moore, William Moore, Montgomery Faulkner, Jesse Osborne, George Gill, Robt. Gill, Lt. Col. Edwin Harman, Gordon Carter, Augustus Carter and Thomas East. There were a number of others wounded.
There was an unfortunate condition of affairs that prevailed in the extreme Northeast corner of the county during the last year of the war. A few soldiers from that section were at home, absent from the army without leave. Two factions sprang up among them, and the result was a bitter feud, in which four men lost their lives. Mark Perdue, a well-behaved, harmless young man, was the first vietim of this feud. The next men killed were John Fletcher and Osborne Dillon. The last victim was Samuel Hamill, who lost his life about the time the war ended.
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