Chaplain to the Confederacy
Subtitle: Basil Manly and Baptist Life in the Old South (Southern Biography Series)
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780807125762
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Baptist Churches; Biography: general; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; c 1800 to c 1900; Christianity - Baptists; Applied Arts (General); United States - Civil War; Biography / Autobiography; Religious; Biography/Autobiography; Central Southern states; Southeastern & South Atlantic states; Historical - U.S.; Baptists; United States; Christianity - Baptist; History; 1798-1868; Biography; Manly, Basil,; Southern Baptist Convention
First sentence: On February 18, 1861, Basil Manly found himself, as he often did, near the center of things.
Description: "As Jefferson Davis paraded through the streets of Montgomery, Alabama, to take the oath of office as the first president of the Confederate States of America, two men accompanied him in his open coach: Alexander Stephens - the vice-president elect - and Basil Manly. A noted southern Baptist preacher, educator, and the most ardent secessionist of them all, Manly had been selected to serve as chaplain to the provisional Confederate Congress and opened the inaugural ceremonies with a prayer.

For nearly thirty years, Manly had worked devotedly for the establishment of a southern nation, and in 1861, his sermons and public prayers before church and congress lent moral and religious legitimacy to the new Confederate government. In this, the first full biography of Manly, A. James Fuller analyzes the life and career of this working minister, illustrating the central role of religion in the formation of the Confederacy."--BOOK JACKET.