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The Spirit Divided
Civil War 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?
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Serving Two Masters
Chaplain Richard M. Budd has made a welcome, concise, well written and researched contribution to an overlooked chapter in chaplain history. Anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of how the professional and fully institutionalized chaplaincy of today's military came about would do well by consulting Budd's book." --Bradley L. Carter, On Point. Military chaplains have a long and distinguished tradition in the United States, but historians have typically ignored their vital role in ministering to the needs of soldiers and sailors. Richard M. Budd corrects this omission with a thoughtful history of the chaplains who sought to create a viable institutional structure for themselves ...
Five Black Preachers in Army Blue, 1884-1901
A study of African American chaplains from the end of the Civil War to the first decade of this century, focusing on five individual stories. Lamm (history, Mount Olive College) delineates the role of black chaplains within the institutional context of the US Army at a time he considers to be the nadir of the black experience in America, when the hope engendered by the end of slavery had been dimmed with the introduction of rigorous segregation in the South and the legal recognition of the system by the Supreme Court in 1896. He begins with a chapter that explores the religious heritage of black Americans and African-American Christianity, before examining the five cases. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
