During the American Civil War, the Mennonites and Amish faced moral
dilemmas that tested the very core of their faith. How could they
oppose both slavery and the war to end it? How could they remain
outside the conflict without entering the American mainstream to
secure legal conscientious objector status? In the North, living
this ethical paradox marked them as ambivalent participants to the
Union cause; in the South, it marked them as clear traitors.
In the first scholarly treatment of pacifism during the Civil
War, two experts in Anabaptist studies explore the important role
of sectarian religion in the conflict and the effects of wartime
Americanization on these religious communities. James O. Lehman and
Steven M. Nolt describe the various strategies used by religious
groups who struggled to come to terms with the American mainstream
without sacrificing religious values -- some opted for greater
political engagement, others chose apolitical withdrawal, and some
individuals renounced their faith and entered the fight.
Integrating the most recent Civil War scholarship with
little-known primary sources and new information from Pennsylvania
and Virginia to Illinois and Iowa, Lehman and Nolt provide the
definitive account of the Anabaptist experience during the
bloodiest war in American history.
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