THE SPIRIT DIVIDED; MEMOIRS OF CIVIL WAR CHAPLAINS, THE UNION.
Language: English
Published by Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2007., 2007
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First edition (as stated upon copyright page). xviii, [18], 269 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. Dust jacket lightly bumped with slight bumping at edges. Blue boards with vibrant silver stamping to spine. Interior leaves are bright and clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. With Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction "The Union Forever," Appendix: Biographical Anecdotes, Bibliography, and Index. Features five chapters: "Reporting for Duty;" "Ministry in the Camps;" "Ministry on Campaigns;" "Ministry in Prisons and Hospitals;" and "The Measure of Ministry." ISBN 9780865549968.
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- Title
- THE SPIRIT DIVIDED; MEMOIRS OF CIVIL WAR CHAPLAINS, THE UNION.
- Author
- Maryniak, Benedict R. and John Wesley Brinsfield, Jr. (compiler, editor).
- Publisher
- Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2007.
- Publication year
- 2007
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0865549966
- ISBN 13
- 9780865549968
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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- Civil War
Historians are only beginning to address the religious as a facet of the Civil War. Because neither war department had an office governing military chaplains, almost 4,000 of them were nearly lost to future study. After many years of research, their names, assignments, and denominational affiliations were listed in Faith in the Fight. In an organization created to destroy the enemy, chaplains ate, drank, and slept dissonance. Older than most soldiers and looking at battle with very different eyes, chaplains had their beliefs brutally tested at the same time they instilled faith that sustained men through adversities and tragedies. The Spirit Divided is a collection of letters, reports, and recollections in which army chaplains describe their motives and methods, their failures and achievements. Some threw away their somber black uniforms and became dashing staff officers who rode over battlefields to deliver orders, even capture enemy soldiers. Scorning these “chaplains militant,” others were, in the words of a battlefield journalist, “bearers of the cup of cold water and the word of good cheer—the strong regiment may be the colonel’s, but the wounded brigade is the chaplain’s.” Chaplains wondered whose side God was on, and if their ministries might be in vain. They saw, on both sides, God’s Spirit at work. Was the Spirit divided, was God punishing both North and South for their sins, or was there some other explanation for this seemingly endless war? The reflections of these men of the cloth, who were underfed, underpaid, and largely unappreciated, have much to teach modern readers. They had to find, above all, the faith and perseverance to sustain the spirit of their people during the greatest war ever fought on this continent.
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About the Author
JOHN WESLEY BRINSFIELD, JR., is the chaplain corps historian at the Army Chaplain School, Ft. Jackson, South Carolina. He is the author of TheSpirit Divided: Memoirs of Civil War Chaplains ?The Confederacy and other books and articles.
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