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soldier, without fear and without reproach and full of well-earned honors.
2. That in his death she mourns the loss of one of the most noble and the most loyal of all her heroic sons.
3. That, so far as such final disposition of his remains can be harmonized with the wishes and plans of the General's family, the people of Richmond and, we are confident, the people of Virginia as well, crave the noble body, scarred with ten honorable wounds, and ask that they be permitted to lay it reverently to rest here, in his native soil, at such place in or near the city of Richmond as may hereafter be determined upon.
4. That the foregoing minute and resolutions be communicated to to the family of General Johnston, accompanied by our reverent sympathies.
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