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He was present for the formation of the Confederate Constitution, and credited with a preamble which invoked "the favor of almighty God." [ 2 ] : 37 Jefferson Davis chose Manly to deliver the invocation address at his presidential inauguration, and Manly was the only person to accompany Davis and vice president Alexander H. Stephens at the head ...
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Portrait of a Confederate Army infantryman (1861–1865) Johnny Reb is the national personification of the common soldier of the Confederacy.During the American Civil War and afterwards, Johnny Reb and his Union counterpart Billy Yank were used in speech and literature to symbolize the common soldiers who fought in the Civil War in the 1860s. [1]
A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War. Carroll, Dillon J., "'The God Who Shielded Me Before, Yet Watches Over Us All': Confederate Soldiers, Mental Illness, and Religion," Civil War History, 61 (Sept. 2015), 252–80. Faust, Drew Gilpin.
What to call the Confederate 43rd Battalion was a matter of contention during the war. The members of the battalion were referred to as soldiers, partisans, rangers, and guerillas. The Union viewed them as unsoldierly: a loose band of roving thieves. Northern newspapers and Unionists referred to them as guerrillas, a term of opprobrium at the ...
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The image of a soldier is also used in 2 Timothy 2:3–4 [4] as a metaphor for courage, loyalty and dedication; [5] this is followed by the metaphor of an athlete, emphasising hard work. In 1 Corinthians 9:7, [ 6 ] this image is used in a discussion of church workers receiving payment, with a metaphorical reference to a soldier's rations and ...
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