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The book, Civil War memoir, written in diary format, provides some good insights into war from a Confederate chaplain's unique point of view. Betts preferred to call the war a revolution rather than a civil war, and he explains why. Because the book was a day-to-day journal, many of the entries are a bit sketchy. Still, several passages are very revealing and even emotionally moving. Readers desiring to know the Confederate viewpoint about the Civil War (which Betts prefers to call America's War of 1861-1865) will find Bett's book to be particularly enlightening.

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A.D. Betts was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and served as a chaplain to the 30th North Carolina Infantry. He entered the service at Smithville, North Carolina, and soon joined the Confederate armies in Virginia. This transcription of A.D. Betts' diary gives a clear picture of the work of a Confederate army chaplain during the U.S. Civil War at, amongst other places, Sharpsburg and Gettysburg.

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