The Vincentian Experience of the Civil War in Missouri

At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Vincentian Fathers had three houses along the Mississippi River in Missouri, two of them seminaries and the third soon to become a seminary. Missouri was a state torn by partisanship over the war. Twice, Confederate armies invaded the southeast part of the state...

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Main Author: Slawson, Douglas J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: American Catholic Historical Society 2010
In: American catholic studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 121, Issue: 4, Pages: 31-60
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Summary:At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Vincentian Fathers had three houses along the Mississippi River in Missouri, two of them seminaries and the third soon to become a seminary. Missouri was a state torn by partisanship over the war. Twice, Confederate armies invaded the southeast part of the state, where two of the Vincentian seminaries were located. The present article recounts the Vincentian experience of the war in Missouri: the difficulty it posed for keeping the Vincentian rules, the hardship it worked on the seminaries, the problem the federal draft threatened for priests and seminarians, the alarm caused by invasion, and the violation at war's end of the civil liberties of priests by the state's new Drake Constitution.
ISSN:2161-8534
Contains:Enthalten in: American catholic studies