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"Lee's Last Casualty" is about my 1/2-great4-uncle-by-marriage, said to be the last man killed in the Civil War from the Army of Northern Virginia who was shot just before the firing ceased at Appomattox. Published in 2008, it contains some biographical information but is mostly transcribed letters that Parker wrote to his family and that his wife Rebecca wrote to him that had been preserved by descendants until they were donated to the University of North Carolina. Sgt. Robert William Parker, from Bedford Co., VA, married Rebecca Louise Fitzhugh Walker (1840-1867), half-sister of my matrilineal great3-grandfather, Robert Benjamin Walker (1828-1908), and they had 3 children who became orphans after Rebecca's death at age 27, said to have been due to the fact that she never recovered from her grief at losing her husband 2 years earlier. I highly recommend this book for any cousins of mine on the Walker side. Interestingly, Uncle Robert Parker was a second cousin of the author Samuel Langhorne Clemens AKA Mark Twain, and my great4-grandfather Dr. James Alexander Walker's second wife, Nancy Moorman Jopling (1814-1873), was a cousin to both Twain and Parker, her son-in-law, through the Moorman family.
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