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The aide who had commissioned the painting was 19yo Capt. David Shields of Sewickley, PA, who later commissioned the painting. He was wounded in 1864 at the age of 20, around the same time Hays was killed. Shields recovered and returned home, living to the age of 93
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In 1924, the local American Legion post of WWI vets invited him for his 80th birthday Invited to speak, he harangued them for not being real soldiers because modern war was for wimps - evidence that older generations always call the next gen weak The WWI vets gave him a standing ovation
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