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Collision of Valor in the Shenandoah Defense
Lieutenant DeHavers holds Battery Q against repeated Union charges in the Shenandoah valley. He and ten remaining Confederates endure brutal fighting, then a heroic retreat refusal as he falls mortally wounded shielding the flag, his final tribute from a grateful Union general referencing his brother in arms.
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