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Indiana, where he worked as a cabinetmaker. Packer is said to have had a bitter relationship with his parents, and in his late teens he moved to Minnesota and worked as a shoemaker.

Career

Packer served in the Union army during the American Civil War. He enlisted on April 22, 1862, in Winona, Minnesota, and was assigned to Company F of

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