text: Those he had ever cared about he could list on the fingers of one sun-browned , rein-hardened hand : Cousin Meredith ; her son Shelly he had died at Chickamauga between one short breath and the next Shelly 's younger brother Boyd , who had run away to join Morgan , too , in the sunset of the raider 's career ; and Anse , whom he had believed dead until this past hour .
  
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  He cared greatly about every single person he had met .