Vol. 2 written by M.J. Kraybill, G.R. Brunk, and J.O. Lehman.
Summary
"For some time the History Department at Eastern Mennonite College has realized the need for further investigation of the Menoonite experience during the period of the American Revolution...What follows is a two-part Guide to recrods in southeastern Pennsylvania and maryland which contain information on pacifist groups sucah as Mennonites, Amish, and Tunkers (Church of the Brethren)." [Preface]
Young Center books in Anabaptist and Pietist studies
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : religion, religious minorities, and the American Civil War -- Politics and peoplehood in a restless republic -- Our country is at war -- Conscription, combat, and Virginia's "war of self-defense," 1861-1862 -- Negotiation and notoriety in Pennsylvania, 1862 -- Patterns of peace and patriotism in the Midwest -- The fighting comes north, 1862-1863 -- Thaddeus Stevens and Pennsylvania Mennonite politics -- Did Jesus Christ teach men war? -- Resistance and revenge in Virginia, 1863-1864 -- Burning the Shenandoah Valley -- Reconstructed nation, reconstructed peoplehood.
