The Civil War letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell
Military chaplains
Chaplains
American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658
Historical
United States Civil War, 1861-1865
Personal narratives
Correspondence
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Religious aspects
History
"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 …
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