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and in his pockets is a letter,
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a love letter home.
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And he reads that letter and he quotes from it,
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to his own mother,
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and then he buries the guy and saved the letter.
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And this was his job for about three days in a rainstorm,
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burying Union and Confederate dead.
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It is the carnage at Gettysburg,
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the vast number of dead,
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56-odd-thousand casualties overall,
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that forced the United States Government
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to create to the first national cemetery