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45. Army and Navy Messenger, April 1, 1864, quoted in Berends, “Wholesome Reading,” p. 154. See also Fales Henry Newhall, National Exaltation: The Duties of Christian Patriotism (Boston: John M. Hewes, 1861); William Adams, Christian Patriotism (New York: A. D. F. Randolph, 1863); Joseph Fransioli, Patriotism: A Christian Virtue (New York: Loyal Publication Society, 1863). The last of these works is Catholic. Note the disapproval of Sister Matilda Coskey of the father who refuses to permit his wounded son to be baptized, arguing “he has served his country, fought her battles & that is enough—he has nothing to fear for his soul.” Sister Matilda Coskey to Father Patrick Reilly, October 18, 1864, Patrick Reilly Papers, PAHRC.
46. William Preston Johnston to Wade Hampton, November 3, 1864; James Connor to Wade Hampton, November 6, 1864, Wade Hampton Papers, ESBL; N. A. Foster to William K. Rash, 52nd North Carolina, CSA Collection, ESBL. For another discussion of gallantry, see Eleanor Damon Pace, ed., “The Diary and Letters of William P. Rogers, 1846–1862,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 32 (April 1929): 299.
47. George Barton, Angels of the Battlefield (Philadelphia: Catholic Art Publishing Co., 1897), p. 181.
48. Linderman makes this point about compulsion in Embattled Courage, p. 30; Smith, ed., “Notes on Satterlee,” pp. 433–34; Berends, “Wholesome Reading,” p. 137.
49. Hugh McLees to John, December 20, 1863, John McLees Papers, SCL; Berends, “Wholesome Reading,” p. 139, n21; Gache, Frenchman, 164. On bad deaths, see also Ralph Houlbrooke, Death, Religion and the Family, p. 207.
50. Laderman, Sacred Remains, p. 99; Robert I. Alotta, Civil War Justice: Union Army Executions Under Lincoln (Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Press, 1989); Charleston Mercury, September 18, 1863; John Ripley Adams, Memorial and Letters of John R. Adams, D.D. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1890), p. 123; letters from Guilburton, September 4, 1863, and from Henry Robinson to his wife, both in Lane, ed., Dear Mother, pp. 263–64, 107.
51. Corby, Memoirs, p. 248; Frances Milton Kennedy Diary, M-3008, entry for September 26, 1863, SHC. For examples of descriptions of executions, see Cooney, “War Letters of Father Peter Paul Cooney,” p. 57. On dying badly, see Edward Acton, “‘Dear Mollie’: Letters of Captain Edward Acton to His Wife, 1862,” ed. Mary Acton Hammond, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 89 ( January 1965): 28.
52. Robert Kenzer, “The Uncertainty of Life: A Profile of Virginia’s Civil War Widows,” in Joan E. Cashin, The War Was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), p. 120; Clarke County Will Book E, 1860–67, pp. 129–30, Clarke County Courthouse, Berryville, Va.; Lane, ed., Dear Mother, 108. See N. Crosby, Financial Plans in Case of Death, GLC03046. N. Crosby to son, April 23, 1862, Gilder Lehrman Collection, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, NYHS.
53. John Edwards, Noncuptative Will, April 3, 1862, dictated to Hill at the hospital of the 53rd Virginia Infantry regiment at Suffolk, VHS. Thanks to Frances Pollard for drawing my attention to this document.
54. Burns Newman to Mr. Shortell, May 24, 1864, Michael Shortell Papers, WHS. See also Disposition of Personal Effects of Dead Wisconsin Soldiers, 1863, Wisconsin Governor’s Papers, WHS.
55. Daily South Carolinian, May 29, 1864. For other examples, see obituaries of W. W. Watts, August 23, 1864; H. L. Garlington, August 13, 1864; Milton Cox, August 9, 1862; Joseph Friedenberg, September 15, 1862, all in Daily South Carolinian; George Nichols in Richmond Daily Whig, December 24, 1862; Walter Matthews in Richmond Daily Dispatch, December 25, 1862; Isaac Valentine in Charleston Daily Courier, June 18, 1862; Thomas B. Hampton [March 1865] in Thomas B. Hampton Papers, CAH.
56. Roland C. Bowen to Friend Ainsworth, September 28, 1862, in Gregory A. Coco,