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Grave beside the rose garden recalls Civil War tale
A farmer mourns a lost son buried beneath a rose garden near his gate. Decades later Captain Roland and two sisters from Richmond visit, reuniting with the old man who kept the grave and the soldier’s knife and hair lock, learning the family and community memory of a distant battlefield.
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Wan Nanitry Sven
Turin
Roland
Nanover
Wiens
Stuart
Tolch
Jule
Wa-al
Wimmer
Pennsylvania
McClellan
Johnny
Richmond
Reed Lawrence Cramer
Captain Rowland