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Private Andrew Ladner was killed in action during WWII on November 30, 1942. His remains would not be identified until 2020. He would finally be returned stateside and buried in a family plot in Lizana, MS on April 9, 2022.

At 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, 1979, Rick Forte of Hattiesburg made the discovery of his life. While relic hunting with a metal detector in the vicinity of Vicksburg, he found parts of a Confederate soldier's cartridge box and canteen. Then, nearby, he found what remained of the soldier's body 117 years after he was killed in the Vicksburg campaign of the Civil War. The soldier age was 16 years old, "ONLY KNOWN TO GOD"