Exile in Erin
Subtitle: a Confederate chaplain's story : the life of Father John B. Bannon
By: by William Barnaby Faherty.
Publisher: Missouri Historical Society Press; Distributed by University of Missouri Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: St. Louis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Bannon, John B., 1829-1913.; Confederate States of America. Army -- Chaplains -- Biography.; Confederate States of America. Army. Missouri Brigade, 1st.; Catholic Church -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography.; Catholic Church -- Ireland -- Clergy -- Biography.; Chaplains, Military -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.; Exiles -- Ireland -- Biography.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Chaplains.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Religious aspects.; Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "John B. Bannon excelled in four distinct capacities: as a pastor of a thriving Catholic congregation in St. Louis; as a chaplain with the First Missouri Confederate Infantry; as a diplomat winning Irish support for the cause of the Confederacy; and as Ireland's greatest preacher in the 1880s.".

"William Barnaby Faherty's Exile in Erin examines Bannon's boyhood in Ireland and his early years as a priest in St. Louis. Bannon gave up a major parish to serve the spiritual needs of the soldiers in the field - the only chaplain in either army to do so. He turned Irish opinion to sympathy for the South, then reoriented himself in his native land after the war. His preaching was part of a devotional revolution that put new life in the Irish Church.

Father Bannon was truly an inspirational personality."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]) and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Early years; title: II. St. Louis : church and community; title: III. Early years in St. Louis; title: IV. The nation walks to the brink; title: V. Father Bannon goes south; title: VI. Curtis moves into Arkansas; title: VII. The greatest battle of the Trans-Mississippi; title: VIII. Reminiscing about Pea Ridge; title: IX. Changing fronts; title: X. Iuka and Second Corinth; title: XI. Vicksburg : citadel above the river; title: XII. How great a chaplain?; title: XIII. Confederate agent; title: XIV. Whither the call?; title: XV. Reorientation in Erin; title: XVI. Into the heart of the Irish Church; title: XVII. By train or by Bian; title: XVIII. A pulpit orator of the first rank; title: XIX. The only possible candidate; title: XX. A time of jubilees; title: XXI. Furl the banner.