by Jacquelyn S. Nelson
Indiana Historical Society Press, 1991
Cloth: 978-0-87195-064-2 | eISBN: 978-0-87195-396-4
Library of Congress Classification E540.F8N45 1991
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.715286

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.