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The Dying Volunteer An Incident of Molino Del Rey
A wounded voltiguer tells his tragic backstory amid the Mexico campaign. A Virginia lawyer leaves love for war, joins in secret, and dies on the Molino Del Rey field. He asks a messenger to deliver keepsakes to Eveline, who later dies after receiving his ring. The tale ends with graves and a town’s sorrow.
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Tesneo
Mexico
Chapultepec
Molino del Rey
Shade
United States
Virginia
Plains of
Eveline
Augustus P
Evelyn
Thad
Newport
Kentucky
Wheeling
Ohio
G—ce
Gee
Evenine
Cororen
Paris
Robert Walshays
Soif
Hayti
New Orleans
Grand Opera
Jones
Brown