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LAST WISH NEGLECTED.
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charges for coffin and transportation—had an ambulance ready engaged to bring his remains to City Point, from Petersburg, where he fell, and had even the clean shirt and drawers laid away in which to enshroud him, but no order ever came.
His own back-pay was more than sufficient to cover all expenses: whether his friends, from prudential motives or careless thoughts of him, neglected to fulfil the last request of this dead soldier, I never knew, and doubtless never shall.
