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- Title
"His Loyalty Was But Lip Service".
- Authors
SCOTT, SEAN A.
- Abstract
The article discusses the arrest and imprisonment of Virginia Episcopalian minister John H.D. Wingfield and Virginia Presbyterian minister George D. Armstrong by U.S. Army major general Benjamin F. Butler in Union-occupied Virginia during the U.S. Civil War. It discusses military intervention in religious life during the U.S. Civil War, particularly concerning loyalty oaths demanded of clergy by Butler and his subordinates, coexistence between military authorities and Norfolk, Virginia, and Portsmouth, Virginia, churches, and the policies of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln concerning loyalty oaths.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ARMSTRONG, George D.; WINGFIELD, John H. D.; LOYALTY oaths; BUTLER, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893; LOYALTY; FREEDOM of religion; LINCOLN, Abraham, 1809-1865; AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865; VIRGINIA state history; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY; UNITED States history
- Publication
Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, 2014, Vol 122, Issue 4, p298
- ISSN
0042-6636
- Publication type
Article