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📘 Edward Payson Roe (1838-1888) was an American novelist who served as a chaplain in the Civil War and wrote weekly letters the New York Evangelist, and subsequently lectured on the war and wrote for periodicals. In the 1870s, he began writing very popular novels. Their strong moral and religious purpose, and their being written by a clergyman, did much to break down a Puritan prejudice in America against works of fiction.