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...acquaintance and friend of the former Chief Justice, permit me to say that he was not a Confederate Veteran, but an Illinois Copperhead- and a bitter one at that, but he never entered the Rebel Army ; also he was not a Roman Catholic, he and his family were members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, having been formerly members of the Congregational Church in Augusta, Me., and entering the Episcopal Church just before or a few years after the Chief Justice was born. I think he saw the error of his ways as to Copperheadism, and would not thank...
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