Sentence:  On <WSD>December</WSD> 9 , 1862 , Sergeant Edwin H. Fay , an unusual Louisianan who held A. B. and M. A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana , wrote his wife : 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the last (12th) month of the year