Faith in the Fight

[L Verge]

Agreed. And, one of those Union chaplains was right here in Southern Maryland serving as the priest of an Episcopal congregation that was 99% pro-Confederate. The assassination nuts among us will remember his name, Rev. Lemuel Wilmer, because Dr. Mudd stated that Booth and Herold asked him for directions to Parson Wilmer's place. This was either a Mudd misquote or Booth trying to implicate a man that he knew was a good Union man. BTW: Rev. Wilmer's appointment as a chaplain for the Union army came from Edwin Stanton. Ever wonder if the reverend might have been a spy for the Union in the thick of Maryland's Confederacy?

P.S. Rev. Wilmer's old church still stands, and he is buried beside it.