Indiana Quakers Confront the Civil War

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Indiana Quakers Confront the Civil War is written by Jacquelyn S. Nelson and published by Indiana Historical Society. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0871950642 (ISBN 10) and 9780871950642 (ISBN 13).

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.