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The Religious
Pray, The Profane Swear
A Civil War
Memoir
Personal Reminiscences of Prison Life During the War of the
Rebellion
by
Robert Loudon Drummond, G.A.R
Collection and Commentary
by
Victor E. Taylor
A PenMark Press Book
Robert Loudon Drummond was born August 21, 1842 in New York City. He
enlisted in the Union Army in September 1864, and was captured at
the Battle of Burgess Mill (Hatcher’s Run) in October 1864. Drummond
is one of only a few who survived both Libby Prison (Richmond, VA)
and Salisbury Prison (Salisbury, NC) and thereafter dedicated his
life to the search for reconciliation between the North and South.
This extraordinary man spoke throughout the eastern United States of
his experiences as a prisoner of war during the Civil War.
Robert Drummond’s written memoir,
Personal Reminiscences of Prison Life
During the War of Rebellion,
was found by Professor Victor E. Taylor in the archives of a museum
in upstate New York. This original memoir, enriched with replicas of
original documents pertaining to Drummonds’ enlistment and service,
has been captured in The Religious Pray, The Profane Swear: A
Civil War Memoir — Personal Reminiscences of Prison Life During the
War of the Rebellion by Robert L. Drummond, G.A.R., with
Collection and Commentary by Victor E. Taylor. It is published with
permission from the museum, and the descendants of Robert L.
Drummond.
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Contents
Foreword
Photo: Robert Loudon Drummond
Robert Loudon Drummond: A Brief
Biography
Of War and Reconciliation
ASHES OF SOLDIERS
History and Narrative
War and the Politics of War
Reminiscences of Prison Life
and After
Address: February 22, 1901
R.L. Drummond’s List of the Dead of
the 111th N.Y.
Infantry
Oration: July 3, 1913
Photo: Robert Loudon Drummond
Afterword
Victor
E. Taylor is author of
Para/Inquiry: Postmodern Religion and Culture
(Routledge, 2000), co-editor of
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Postmodernism (Routledge,
2002) and editor of the series
Critical Studies in the Humanities (The Davies Group,
Publishers). He is on the faculty of York College of Pennsylvania.
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