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The Formation Of An Evangelist: D. L. Moody's Experience During The American Civil War, Cooper Pasque
The Formation Of An Evangelist: D. L. Moody's Experience During The American Civil War, Cooper Pasque
Cooper Pasque
D.L. Moody was 24 when the Civil War began. Throughout the conflict, he played a complex role that traversed many different settings. He ministered to wounded soldiers on several major battlefields, to Union recruits in a training camp outside Chicago, and even to Confederate prisoners-of-war. Despite all this unique wartime activity, Moody maintained his urban ministry in Chicago and somehow found time to get married. Except for brief chapters in a handful of biographies, historians have produced little work on this phase in Moody’s life. This study, which largely draws upon Moody’s wartime correspondence and the records of the United …
Book Review: Williamjames Hull Hoffer. The Caning Of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, And The Origins Of The Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, Daniel L. Slusser
Book Review: Williamjames Hull Hoffer. The Caning Of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, And The Origins Of The Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, Daniel L. Slusser
Daniel Slusser
A book review of Williamjames Hull Hoffer's monograph, The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War.