Have US troops ever been lawfully quartered in private homes during wartime under the Third Amendment?

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Based on the article "The Third Amendment: Forgotten but Not Gone" by Tom W. Bell, I strongly suspect that the answer is "no". According to this article, troops were quartered in private U.S. homes during the War of 1812 and on both sides of the Civil War. In neither case did Congress pass laws to authorize the quartering.

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