Virginia Episcopalian Magazine Summer 2014 Issue | Página 31

Civil War
and the Life of the Diocese

New Kinds of Bishop Visitations
Julia Randle
The Civil War profoundly altered the ministry
strength, the Confederate States’ Army of
of the Rt. Rev. John Johns, bishop of Virginia
Northern Virginia included about 90,000
from 1862 to 1876. U.S. Army occupation
soldiers. The chaplaincy corps, however, never
of portions of the Diocese of Virginia and
contained an adequate num