Historians are only beginning to address the religious as a facet
of the Civil War. Because neither war department had an office
governing military chaplains, almost 4,000 of them were nearly lost
to future study. After many years of research, their names,
assignments, and denominational affiliations were listed in Faith
in the Fight. In an organization created to destroy the enemy,
chaplains ate, drank, and slept dissonance. Older than most
soldiers and looking at battle with very different eyes, chaplains
had their beliefs brutally tested at the same time they instilled
faith that sustained men through adversities and tragedies. The
Spirit Divided is a collection of letters, reports, and
recollections in which army chaplains describe their motives and
methods, their failures and achievements. Some threw away their
somber black uniforms and became dashing staff officers who rode
over battlefields to deliver orders, even capture enemy soldiers.
Scorning these "chaplains militant," others were, in the words of a
battlefield journalist, "bearers of the cup of cold water and the
word of good cheer--the strong regiment may be the colonel's, but
the wounded brigade is the chaplain's." Chaplains wondered whose
side God was on, and if their ministries might be in vain. They
saw, on both sides, God's Spirit at work. Was the Spirit divided,
was God punishing both North and South for their sins, or was there
some other explanation for this seemingly endless war? The
reflections of these men of the cloth, who were underfed,
underpaid, and largely unappreciated, have much to teach modern
readers. They had to find, above all, the faith and perseverance to
sustain the spirit of their people during the greatest war ever
fought on this continent.
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