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Tear Jerker / Shenandoah

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  • Charlie Anderson talking to his wife's grave.
  • Sam being called to the frontlines just seconds after he and Jennie get married.
  • The local doctor talking about how one of his sons is dead, another will probably die of tuberculosis and the third is still on the front lines.
  • The whole scene where the family stop the prison train, both for the sorry nature of the prisoners and the engineer’s unsuccessful pleas for them not to burn the train he's clearly spent years as the driver of.
  • Everything about the death of James and Ann.
  • The Anderson family having to give up the search for Boy.
  • Boy’s friend Carter’s Surprisingly Sudden Death on the battlefield.
  • Jacob being pointlessly and accidentally shot by a spooked sentry and Charlie's angry speech to the man who did it.


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