TIL in 1865 Union officer Joshua Chamberlain was shot. The bullet passed through his horse’s neck, through a bible in his front pocket, under his skin, around his ribs, and out his back. To observers he appeared to be shot straight through the chest & earned the name “Bloody Chamberlain”

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