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Richard Rowland Kirkland of Company G, 2nd South Carolina Volunteers, C.S.A., risked his life at Fredericksburg to bring water to wounded enemy soldiers, an act of compassion that led fighting men on both sides to call him “The Angel of Marye’s Heights.” Born in Kershaw County, S.C., in August 1843, he was a sergeant at Fredericksburg in December 1862, a lieutenant at Gettysburg in July 1863, and was killed in action at Chickamauga in September 1863.
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Fredericksburg, Virginia · United States
