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Who called her “Mother”. Bright
was now our home, And now, tho long deferred, was
Christmas come. The vision mocked itself ere it
was gone; ^ I waked to find myself quite, quite
alone; Yet not unthankful for that moment’s
gleam, Of phantom Sunshine tho* twas
but a Dream.
For the first time since the Civil War, no soldier of that terrible struggle will see Christmas. Ort December 19, Walter W. Williams, age 117 years, one of the four million who wore the Blue or the Gray, died as his home in Texas. Governor Price Daniel of Texas, using one of Stonewall Jacksons’ last phrasess said, “General Williams has passed over the river, to rest in the shade of the trees.
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