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Book Review
Canada and the United States
Warren B. Armstrong. For Courageous Fighting and Confident Dying: Union Champlains in the Civil War. (Modern War Studies.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 1998. Pp. xii, 171. $24.95.
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This useful, compact studyan updated doctoral dissertation begun more than thirty-five years agointerweaves military and religious history. Its topics include the authorization, organization, and administration of the Union chaplaincy; the chaplains' duties, practices, and relations with the troops; their interaction with freedmen; their attitudes about the cause and meaning of the Civil War; and, finally, the quality of their contributions. |
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