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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... weekly intervals—over the first two years of the war, and continued until July 1864 (the letters become generally more sporadic and thinner after his father's death in 1863). Twichell's material ranges widely as he describes the key ...
... weekly with his father, Edward Twichell, all during college, and he kept this up after his move to New York. The elder Twichell, a deacon of Southington's First Congregational Church, was deeply religious and strongly antislavery ...
... week in May to the last week in August. At the outset of the war, many believed sub- duing the South would be a matter of a few weeks. Twichell next wrote to his father from New York on 5 May 1861. Now for my news. I told you when you ...
... week I shall become fully posted, and you shall know all. From the enclosed document, you will learn that there is ... weeks. The “Excelsior” also has a chaplain, whom I have not yet seen. Until I have seen and conferred with him, I ...
... week we had caused about 1500 Testaments, the gift of the Bible Society,° to be conveyed to the barracks, and we thought best to make their presentation to the men as much an event as possible in order that more impression might be made ...
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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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