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A Confederate boy, age 14, lies dead in the trenches of Fort Mahone at Petersburg. "It is to be hoped that the man who slew him has forgotten it, for this face would haunt him surely," April 1865, taken by Thomas Roche.

A Confederate boy, age 14, lies dead in the trenches of Fort Mahone at Petersburg. "It is to be hoped that the man who slew him has forgotten it, for this face would haunt him surely," April 1865, taken by Thomas Roche.

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