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I cannot pinpoint where W. H. H. Fields died, but a number of wounded Texans who fell in front of Little Round Top on 2 July were carried back by soldiers of the Union Fifth Corps to ambulances that transported them to their (Fifth Corps) hospitals, either to the Michael Fiscel farm behind the lines or to the Jesse Worley farm near the village of Two Taverns. There are in fact Texans who died at both locations and were buried on the spot. Those who survived for some days were eventually moved to Camp Letterman in an effort to consolidate the wounded of both armies, and some Texans died there as well. A few were even taken further to the rear; one Texan wound up in Baltimore at the West Building's hospital. But odds are that W. H. H. Fields died of his wounds at either the Fiscel or Worley farm, or perhaps at Camp Letterman. Nearly all the Texans buried around the battlefield, including at Hood's division (Confederate) hospital at the John Edward Plank farm, were reinterred at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond several years after the war.

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