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THIS & THAT
by e-nily b. miller
Once there were 4,000,000 soldiers of the Civil War, last year there were 43, last March there were 26; now there are only 20— 13 of the Confederate Army and seven of the Union Army — a shi inking biidgehead in time. While talking- to them they patiently make .the long journey back in memory to Shiloli, Gettysburg and Vicksburg, to the last time Americans fought Americans. Now 86 years after Appomattox there are just these few ltmainiiig Old Soldiers (as MacArthur quoted a song “Old Soldiers neve: die, they just fade away'. Only four of the 20 were able to attend the annual reunion in Norfolk Wednesday the 30th— John A. Marcum of Berta, Ark. is the youngest, he is 97; James A. Hard of Rochester is the oldest,
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