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The Souldiers Pocket Bible (aka Cromwell's Soldiers' Pocket Bible, The Soldier's Pocket Bible, Cromwell's Soldier's Bible [1]) was a pamphlet version of the Protestant Bible that was carried by the soldiers of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army during the English Civil War.
In a newspaper interview of 1939, he explained that "I wanted to paint him as a fanatic, for John Brown was a fanatic. He had the wild zeal of the extremist, the fanatic for his cause—and we had the Civil War, with its untold misery." [3] Later, he wrote in a letter: "I think he is the prototype of a great many Kansans. Someone described a ...
John William (J. W.) McGarvey (March 1, 1829 – October 6, 1911) was a minister, author, and religious educator in the American Restoration Movement.He was particularly associated with the College of the Bible in Lexington, Kentucky (today Lexington Theological Seminary) where he taught for 46 years, serving as president from 1895 to 1911.
Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis and Julia Dent Grant. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. ISBN 978-1400044665. Clinton, Catherine and Silber, Nina, eds. Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
In the years leading up to the Civil War, he raised money to purchase slaves from captivity and to send rifles—nicknamed "Beecher's Bibles"—to abolitionists fighting in Kansas. He toured Europe during the Civil War, speaking in support of the Union. After the war, Beecher supported social reform causes such as women's suffrage and temperance.
Dusty Miller, 1945, a Methodist layman killed in a World War II Japanese administered POW camp in Thailand; Marcel Callo, 1945; Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1945, Lutheran pastor and member of the German Resistance; Rolando Rivi, fourteen-year-old seminarian, 1945; Peter To Rot, 1945; Vincentas Borisevičius, 1946; Martyrs of Albania, 1945-1974
American Bible Society used the King James Bible, and, starting in 1858, appointed committees to prevent textual corruption. [5] The American Bible Society provided the first Bibles in hotels and the first pocket Bibles for soldiers during the American Civil War.
The Soldiers' Free Library was established in Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War, to supply Union troops with reading material.The library also held other items for the troops' use, including crutches, stationery, and clothing, many of these handmade donations from women's organizations.