[Coleus]

Not an easy path: Presbyterian minister James Caldwell, who gained fame during the battle of Springfield, New Jersey, when he gathered Watts hymnals from a church for use as rifle wadding and shouted to the troops as he handed them out, “put Watts into them" was killed in the war, as was his wife.

Moral underpinnings: Baptist minister David Barrow gave his whole being to causes he joined. He was nearly drowned by vigilantes for preaching as a Baptist in areas dominated by the Church of England, and he took up a gun to fight in the Revolutionary War.

[When do we get liberated?]

There’s a small church up the street from me. Not a church anymore, but a historical marker and an outline of where the building was before Union sharpshooters occupied it and Confederate artillery razed it. Pole Green Church was one of these places.

[knarf]

I’ve waited for this kind of affirmation a long time

[patriot preacher]

As a Patriot Preacher, I indeed consider myself a member of any resurrected Black Regiment! Amen! :-)