id was set in the arguments array for the "side panel" sidebar. Defaulting to "sidebar-1". Manually set the id to "sidebar-1" to silence this notice and keep existing sidebar content. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 4.2.0.) in /home/netscrib/public_html/civilwarcavalry/wp-includes/functions.php on line 4239id was set in the arguments array for the "footer" sidebar. Defaulting to "sidebar-2". Manually set the id to "sidebar-2" to silence this notice and keep existing sidebar content. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 4.2.0.) in /home/netscrib/public_html/civilwarcavalry/wp-includes/functions.php on line 4239In some cases, loyal servants even carried the bodies of their masters in the wagons for proper burial back home. At one point in the retreat, the servant of Colonel Avery from the 6th North Carolina was “assailed” with orders to bury his master’s body along the road because of the “increasing offensiveness” of the corpse. “He was cursed and beaten with pieces of fence rail by some of the troops; but he remained faithful to his trust,” Sergeant Walter A. Montgomery of the 12th North Carolina recalled. “With several other North Carolina soldiers, I came to the old negro’s rescue, and enabled him to carry his charge to a place of safety.”
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