Sentence:  On December 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 <WSD>private</WSD> school for boys in Louisiana , wrote his wife : 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a school established and controlled privately and supported by endowment and tuition