In God's Presence: Chaplains, Missionaries, and Religious Space During the American Civil War

by Benjamin L. Miller

When thousands of young men in the North and South marched off to fight in the Civil War, another army of men accompanied them to care for these soldiers' spiritual needs. In God's Presence explores how these two cohorts of men, Northern and Southern and mostly Christian, navigated the challenges of the Civil War on battlefields and in military camps, hospitals, and prisons.

In wartime, military clergy--chaplains and missionaries--initially...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700627669
• ISBN13: 9780700627660
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"