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Captain in the 13th New Hampshire Infantry in the Civil War. Letter written January 5 and 6, 1863, from camp opposite Fredericksburg, after the Fredericksburg campaign. Writes about a grand review of General Edwin Sumner's Grand Division of 50,000 men by General Ambrose E. Burnside, and the depletion of the New Hampshire ranks. Remarks that the infantry chaplain rarely has services and is never seen around the camp.