Quaker History Bulletin - 1999 - Society of Friends in the Civil War

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Quaker History
The Bulletin of the Friends Historical Association
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Vol 88, No 1 - Spring 1999
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Softcover : Very Good to Near Mint - seems unread.
83 pages
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Interesting issue of this publication -
has a fairly long article (23 pages, with specific bibliography of sources)
about how the Society of Friends dealt with the Civil War and conscription.
Also a long article about Reuben Harvey and the Revolutionary War.
Taken from an article in the Gettysburg Complier -Dec. 18, 2015
Friends had to decide which was the greater sin: violence or slavery.
Quakerism preached against both, leaving its subjects in opposition to the South’s Peculiar Institution but unwilling to take up arms against the Confederacy.
Those who wished to remain free of the violence attempted to push for conscientious objector status, but they were often met with hefty fines to avoid the draft and public disapproval.
Quakers were thus faced with choosing isolation from their faith or their communities.
Some who decided to take up arms were scrutinized and condemned by the Society of Friends,
but those who abstained from combat, both Union and Confederate, were accused of being unpatriotic and sympathizing with the adversary.
Quaker civilians also faced difficult choices; though she was a Southerner, Delphina Mendenhall welcomed starved and tattered Union soldiers into her home because it aligned with her religious principles of generosity and compassion. This would not have been a popular act, but it attests to the dedication and morality of the Quakers.
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