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(M. L. Rossvally, C. F. Cutter). The Jewish Doctor and the Drummer Boy. First page inscribed: “Halifax Union Church Sunday School 1896.” pp. 25, (3). Stained. Unbound. 12mo. [New York, between 1893 and 1902].     Religious fable about a Civil War drummer boy, received wide circulation with the intended goal to convert Jews to Christianity.     Rossvally, a Union surgeon on the battlefield at Gettysburg, recounts his encounter with one Charlie Coulson, a mortally wounded drummer boy. So moved with the dying young soldier’s Christian faith, the Jewish doctor is motivated to forsake Judaism and become a Christian.     In fact, Rosvally’s account was entirely fictitious. He never was at Gettysburg and Charlie Coulson did not exist.