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    Comrades-in-arms bury Indiana volunteers who fell in battle atop Rich Mountain

    Comrades-in-arms bury Indiana volunteers who fell in battle atop Rich Mountain. Source: Mottlelay, Paul F. and T. Campbell-Copeland, eds. The Soldier in Our Civil War. New York: Stanley Bradley Publishing Company, 1885.

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