The Methodist Episcopal church and the civil war / by William Warren Sweet.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Sweet, William Warren, 1881-1959.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Methodist Episcopal Church--History--Civil War.

Methodist Episcopal Church.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

228 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Cincinnati : Methodist Book Concern Press, [1912]

Contents:

I. The status of the Methodist Episcopal Church at the opening of the war

II. The Church on the border

III. The Church in the New England and Atlantic States

IV. The Church in the central and northwestern states

V. Missions of the Church in the south during the war

VI. Methodist periodicals

VII. Methodist chaplains in the Unions armies

VIII. The war bishops

IX. Methodist co-operation with interdenominational organizations

X. Bibliography

Appendix: a. Names of Methodist chaplains; b. Names of Methodist preachers who were delegates of the U.S. Christian Commission; c. Letter to Jefferson Davis by a Confederate officer, concerning Bishop Ames; d. Outline of Bishop Simpson's lecture on "Our Country;" Bishop Simpson's funeral oration over the body of Lincoln; e. The Methodist Episcopal Church, south, in relation to the war; f. Tabulated list of memorials presented to the general conference of 1860, for and against changing the rule on slavery.

Notes:

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania,1912.

Appendix: E. "Preachers of the Methodist Episcopal church, South in the Confederate army": p. 219-225.

Bibliography: pages 177-186.

Other Format:

Online version: Sweet, William Warren, 1881-1959. Methodist Episcopal church and the civil war.

OCLC:

2522760