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Chaplain’s Last Fight

News of a Christmas eve burial via Richmond. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch January 2, 1863: Death of a fighting Chaplain. Rev. Arthur B. Fuller, Chaplain of a Massachusetts regiment, who was killed at Fredericksburg, was buried at Boston on … Continue reading

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Thanksgiving

150 years ago today most northern states celebrated Thanksgiving. From glancing through The New-York Times it seems that there was sadness for the absence of soldiers through death or away still serving in the one of the many “seats of … Continue reading

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