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Obediah Summers

1844–1896

United States

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Rev. Obediah Summers (1844 – 1896), was an American minister, an American Civil War veteran, and chaplain. He was born enslaved, and briefly worked in servitude within the Confederate States Army, before electing to join the Union Army.

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