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Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War

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During the American Civil War, the Mennonites and Amish faced moral dilemmas that tested the very core of their faith. How could they oppose both slavery and the war to end it? How could they remain outside the conflict without entering the American mainstream to secure legal conscientious objector status? In the North, living this ethical paradox marked them as ambivalent participants to the Union cause; in the South, it marked them as clear traitors. In the first scholarly treatment of pacifism during the Civil War, two experts in Anabaptist studies explore the important role of sectarian religion in the conflict and the effects of wartime Americanization on these religious communities. James O. Lehman and Steven M. Nolt describe the various strategies used by religious groups who struggled to come to terms with the American mainstream without sacrificing religious values -- some opted for greater political engagement, others chose apolitical withdrawal, and some individuals renounced their faith and entered the fight. Integrating the most recent Civil War scholarship with little-known primary sources and new information from Pennsylvania and Virginia to Illinois and Iowa, Lehman and Nolt provide the definitive account of the Anabaptist experience during the bloodiest war in American history.

List of Tables and MapsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Religion, Religious Minorities, and the American Civil War1. Politics and Peoplehood in a Restless Republic2. Our Country Is at War3. Conscription, Combat, and Virginia's ""War of Self-Defense""4. Negotiation and Notoriety in Pennsylvania5. Patterns of Peace and Patriotism in the Midwest6. The Fighting Comes North7. Thaddeus Stevens and Pennsylvania Mennonite Politics8. Did Jesus Christ Teach Men to War?9. Resistance and Revenge in Virginia10. Burning the Shenandoah Valley11. Reconstructed Nation, Reconstructed PeoplehoodAppendixesA. The Sonnenberg PetitionB. Mennonites Identified on Roll of ExemptionsList of AbbreviationsNotesReferencesIndex

""Without question, this work by Lehman and Nolt should be on the bookshelf of anyone interested in 'peace churches,' or pacifists, regardless of the time period.""

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