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From the Advocate.
Extracts of a letter to the Editor, dated
Camp Wingfield, Sevier county, Sept. 10, 1836
We are getting slowly on - detained waiting for a company in Hempstead and
one here. No accident happened among us until we reached this place.
Yesterday morning, just before day, a limb from a dead tree fell upon a tent
and killed instantaneously a young man, by the name of William R. Wingfield,
who had joined my company in Clark county, cleaving his head from the nose
backward entirely asunder - he never breathed or uttered a groan. He bid
fair to make a good soldier; was a clever young man; and having joined the
company on account of his attachment to me, his death has caused me much
regret.
A. Fowler
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Arkansas Gazette, Volume XVII, October 4, 1836, Number 42, Whole No. 1043,
page 1, column 2.
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