The Civil War letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell : a chaplain's story

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"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...

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Main Author: Twichell, Joseph Hopkins, 1838-1918 (Author)
Other Authors: Messent, Peter, 1946- (Editor), Courtney, Steve, 1948- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2006
Subjects:
Twichell, Joseph Hopkins, > 1838-1918 > Correspondence.
Military chaplains > United States > Correspondence.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Religious aspects.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Chaplains.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • April 1861-July 1861: "this ... regiment, composed as it is of rough, wicked men"
  • July 1861-March 1862: "battle fields are not far off"
  • April-August 1862: "sin entered into the world and death through sin' kept ringing through my brain"
  • August-December, 1862: "if I mistake not there is a general falling back"
  • January-April 1863: "I come face to face with the hard, bitter fact"
  • May-July 1863: "thousands of souls have been called to sudden judgment"
  • August-December 1863: "never can we forget the year 1863"
  • January-July 1864: "I have been up to my elbows in blood"
  • Afterword: the Lee ivy.

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