The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain's StoryUniversity of Georgia Press, 2012 M01 15 - 352 páginas In 1861 young Joseph Twichell cut short his seminary studies to become a Union Army chaplain in New York's Excelsior Brigade. A middle-class New England Protestant, Twichell served for three years in a regiment manned mostly by poor Irish American Catholics. This selection of Twichell's letters to his Connecticut family will rank him alongside the Civil War's most literate and insightful firsthand chroniclers of life on the road, in battle, and in camp. As a noncombatant, he at once observed and participated in the momentous events of the Peninsula and Wilderness Campaigns and at the Second Bull Run, as well as at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Spotsylvania. Twichell writes about politics and slavery and the theological and cultural divide between him and his men. Most movingly, he tells of tending the helpless, burying the dead, and counseling the despondent. Alongside accounts of a run-in with slave hunters, a massive withdrawal of wounded soldiers from Richmond, and other extraordinary events, Twichell offers close-up views of his commanding officer, the "political general" Daniel Sickles, surely one of the most colorful and controversial leaders on either side. Civil War scholars and enthusiasts will welcome this fresh voice from an underrepresented class of soldier, the army chaplain. Readers who know of Twichell's later life as a prominent minister and reformer or as Mark Twain's closest friend will appreciate these insights into his early, transforming experiences. |
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... Sickles's Excelsior Brigade 179 Perkins's sketch on the Union disaster at Fredericksburg 202 Trostle's barn, after the battle of Gettysburg 250–51 Trostle's barn, today 253 General Sickles in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1913 313 ix This ...
... Sickles's Excelsior Brigade in Lower Manhattan. The irony of a small-town New England Congregationalist minister-in-training shepherding the souls of tough Irish Catholics from the brickyards and tanneries of this neighborhood was not ...
... York City and not yet ordained when he signed up as chaplain of the Jackson Regiment of Daniel E. Sickles's Excelsior Brigade. (Asylum Hill Congregational Church) father and the dependent nature of his relationship to him—as.
... Sickles, an attorney and politician who had served as a Democratic U.S. representative from New York from 1857 to 1861. Twichell's regiment spent the early part of the war performing various guard and construction duties in Washington ...
... Sickles on moral grounds. In 1859, before the war, Sickles had gained notoriety by killing his wife's lover, only to be acquitted on the basis of temporary insanity (the first use of such a plea). When Twichell was invited to join ...
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Battle fields are not far off | 45 |
Sin entered into the world and death through sin kept ringing through my brain | 107 |
If I mistake not there is a general falling back | 172 |
I come face to face with the hard bitter Fact | 207 |
Thousands of souls have been called to sudden judgement | 232 |
Never can we forget the year 1863 | 257 |
I have been up to my elbows in blood | 290 |
The Lee Ivy | 311 |
Sources | 319 |
Index | 323 |
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