Corbett was the 1860s version of a viral celebrity, adored and loathed in equal measure by a divided nation. Not only do Corbett’s religious passions, preserved in archives all over the country, make him a fascinating figure, but he was also a kind of Civil War-era Forrest Gump, popping up in Andersonville Prison, the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, a Kansas homestead. His story sheds light on some of the dimmer corners of American history.
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