Indiana Quakers Confront the Civil War

Jacquelyn S. Nelson

окт. 2015 г. · Indiana Historical Society

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When members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, first arrived in antebellum Indiana, they could not have envisioned the struggle which would engulf the nation when the American Civil War began in 1861. Juxtaposed with its stand against slavery a second tenet of the Society's creed--adherence to peace--also challenged the unity of Friends when the dreaded conflict erupted. Indiana Quakers Confront the Civil War chronicles for the first time the military activities of Indiana Quakers during America's bloodiest war and explores the motivation behind the abandonment, at least temporarily, of their long-standing testimony against war.

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Jacquelyn S. Nelson earned a Ph.D. in history in 1984 and has taught American history at Ball State University and Vincennes University. She has published articles about Quakers during the Civil War in such journals as the Indiana Magazine of History.