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Civil War
FOURTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
I gave him his instructions and away he went, but he never got to the end of his journey. He, horse, nor mail were ever heard from. A few days after this circumstance Chaplain Sage, of my regiment, was going to Washington, and volunteered to take the mail to Aquia Creek. When the reverend old gentleman took the road, well mounted, we thought at least his sacred cloth would be safe from our rapacious foe;
Michigan in the Civil War
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