1888 CONFEDERATE CHAPLAIN. Radical Chaplain Accused of Spying and Kidnapping Runaway Slaves. Jonathan Edwards The Duty of Preparing the

The Duty of Preparing the Way of the Lord

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1888 CONFEDERATE CHAPLAIN. Radical Chaplain Accused of Spying and Kidnapping Runaway Slaves. Jonathan Edwards The Duty of Preparing theA very smartly preserved biography of Methodist [South] radical minister and pro Confederate, pro Slavery agitator, Rev. John B. McFerrin [1808 1877]. At the onset of Civil War, McFerrin applied to serve as Chaplain immediately. He was given sensitive positions at border cities like Nashville and used his clerical cover to act as a spy, offer information to recapture slaves fleeing to the north, and to radicalize and convert Union sympathizers. He