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In the book My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, Sam came home from Yale wearing an army uniform to a tavern in Reding. Father and Sam didn 't get along. Most of their arguments were usually about Sam enlisting with the Patriots in war and how dangerous it would be. Even though Father told Sam not to go to war, Sam didn 't listen and bad things ended up happening. It turned out to be that Sam just came back home to steal Fathers Brown Bess. In the end, Sam was accused of stealing his family 's cattle and his punishment was to be shot.

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