Chaplain in Gray, Abram Ryan
Heagney, H J
P J Kenedy (1958)
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#1687
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Biography
chaplain
Hardcover B000GB0LMK

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Illustrator R. Henneberger
Product Details
Nationality American
Pub Place New York
Dust Jacket dj
Cover Price $13.98
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Links Amazon US
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Conflict Amer Civil War
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Father Abram Ryan was known as the poet-priest of the South. He was ordained just before the beginning of the Civil War, and entered the Confederate army as a chaplain. He served in this capacity until the end of the war, delivering sacraments to the soldiers on both sides. In the hour of defeat he won the heart of the entire South by his poem, "The Conquered Banner," in which exquisite measure was taken, as he told a friend, from one of the Gregorian hymns"The Conquered Banner" was read or sung in every Southern household, and thus became the apotheosis of the "Lost Cause". While much of his later war poetry was notable in its time, this first effort, which fixed his fame, was his finest production. The only other themes upon which he sang were those inspired by religious feeling. Among his poems of that class are to be found bits of the most exquisite imagery. Within the limits of the Southern Confederacy and the Catholic Church in the United States, no poet was more popular.