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Fifth Wheel or Godsend? Sergeant George W. Maret, with little else to do on a cold winter’s day in January of 1862, wrote an openly frustrated letter from his regiment’s position near Arlington, Virginia, to his parents in New York. Among other subjects, he vented anger at his (unnamed) regimental chaplain, calling him an “oldContinue reading “The Efficacy of the Civil War Chaplaincy:”