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In response to the consciousness that a hero was there laid away 

 forever a military organization was extemporized, and volley 

 after volley by platoons was fired over his grave. Some of the 

 young men and boys who witnessed and participated in the cere- 

 monies of the occasion were still living twenty years ago, and as 

 they related the incidents of the occasion to me, their recollec- 

 tions seemed to be as clear and bright as though the occurrence 

 had been of yesterday. 



