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Pure heart : the faith of a father and son in the war for a more perfect union

Title

Pure heart : the faith of a father and son in the war for a more perfect union / William F. Quigley Jr.

Author

Quigley, William F., Jr.

Publication

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2016]
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Additional Authors

Kent State University. Press, publisher.

Description

xxix, 381 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"In the summer of 1862, as Union morale ebbed low with home front division over war costs, coming emancipation, and demoralizing battlefield losses, 24-year-old William White Dorr enlisted as a lieutenant in the 121st Pennsylvania Volunteers, a new Union regiment organizing in Philadelphia. His father, the Reverend Benjamin Dorr, rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia, strived to prevent divisions in his congregation from sundering that Episcopal church historically tied to the nation founding ... Reverend Benjamin Dorr was one of the most important clergymen of the era, who strived to hold his warring parishioners intact. His efforts paralleled Lincoln far greater but comparable challenge to preserve the Union. The Nation Church was torn apart from within between a faction of Pennsylvania leading anti-emancipation Democrats and a faction of the city and state leading Republicans. Like Lincoln, Dorr invoked a temperate faith apart from the civil religion with which most Americans crusaded against each other. Dorr prayed that war might be avoided. But, when war came, he stood faithfully in support of the Union and of the war as Lincoln waged it, emancipation included, even unto the most grievous of losses. William White Dorr was a young officer in a storied Union infantry regiment whose brave stand at Gettysburg was pivotal in the Union preservation"--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Civil War in the North

Uniform Title

Civil War in the North.

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-371) and index.

Contents

The idol is party -- To dwell together in unity -- I will pay my vows -- A very large fight -- Dethroning their ebon idol -- This field shall be a Mecca -- The armour is God's armour -- I pray I may fall as nobly -- Proof that it comes from God -- Among the pure, one of the purest.

Call Number

JFE 16-13888

ISBN

9781606352861
1606352865

LCCN

2016008093

OCLC

935194490

Author

Quigley, William F., Jr., author.

Title

Pure heart : the faith of a father and son in the war for a more perfect union / William F. Quigley Jr.

Publisher

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Civil War in the North

Civil War in the North.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-371) and index.

Added Author

Kent State University. Press, publisher.

Other Form:

Online version: Quigley, William F., Jr., author. Pure heart. Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, 2016 9781631012242 (DLC) 2016033145

Research Call Number

JFE 16-13888

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