John B. Bannon excelled in four distinct capacities: as a
pastor of a thriving Catholic congregation in St. Louis; as a
chaplain with the First Missouri Confederate Infantry at Pea Ridge,
Corinth, and Vicksburg; as a diplomat winning Irish support for the
cause of the Confederacy; and as Ireland's greatest preacher in the
1880s.William Barnaby Faherty's latest book, "Exile in Erin: A
Confederate Chaplain's Story," looks at new historical research and
covers the entire life of this great man. It examines Bannon's
boyhood in Ireland and his early years as a priest in St. Louis.
Bannon gave up a major parish to serve the spiritual needs of the
soldiers in the field--the only chaplain in either army to do so.
He turned Irish opinion to sympathy for the South, then reoriented
himself in his native land after the war. His preaching was part of
a devotional revolution that put new life in the Irish Church.In
reading "Exile in Erin," Civil War buffs will view the conflict
from an unusual vantage, students of Irish history will understand
the Celtic religious scene from Catholic emancipation in 1827 to
the vote for home rule, and all readers will meet a towering and
inspirational personality.
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