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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... prayers” with his “boys” speaks of a comradeship, inclusiveness, and emotional warmth that, in the last analysis, seems fundamental to his personal sense of Christian mission. Twichell's political allegiances and his sense of social ...
... pray and weep over it, yet contemplate with firmness the dreadful path, by which America is to struggle up to better days. What should I do? My prospective profession was to be regarded and receive due influence. I had thus far been ...
... Prayer Book in case my associate were a churchman. He advised me to do it by all means rather than try to mix the service. I told Mr. B. this. He said that he had resolved on the same. But now we both felt like men set free. You may ...
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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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The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain's Story Joseph Hopkins Twichell Vista previa limitada - 2012 |
The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain's Story Joseph Hopkins Twichell Vista previa limitada - 2006 |