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 private school for boys in <WSD>Louisiana</WSD> , wrote his wife : 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War