Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-371) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Pure heart

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

935194490

Responsibility statement

William F. Quigley Jr

Series statement

Civil War in the North

Sub title

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

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’s 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’s far greater but comparable challenge to preserve the Union. “The Nation’s Church” was torn apart from within between a faction of Pennsylvania’s leading anti-emancipation Democrats and a faction of the city’s and state’s 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’s preservation"--Publisher's website

Table Of 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

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