Watie, Stand
Confederate general, Cherokee chief and Moravian 85

Welles, Gideon
Union Secretary of the Navy, Episcopalian 86

Wheeler, Joseph
Confederate general, Episcopalian 87

Whiting, William H.C.
A pre-war captain in the Army Corps of Engineers, Whiting became a Confederate general, and was Catholic. (Wakelyn)

Willard, Frances
The Civil War temperance cause never had a bigger advocate than Frances Willard, an active member of the Methodists. Born in New York and raised in Wisconsin, Willard cut her hair short, preferred to be called “Frank”, and grew into a self-assured speaker and leader on the “new” social issue of drinking and liquor. In 1874, professedly emboldened by the Holy Spirit’s movement during a winter campaign across NY and OH, she became instrumental in creating the Women’s Christian Temperance Movement, becoming its first President in 1879. Capitalizing on the Victorian assumption that a woman’s place was the home, Willard rallied great support not only around temperance but also women’s suffrage. Even after her 1898 death, she continued to receive adulation, including the placing of her statue in Washington in 1905. 88

Wood, S.A.M.
Confederate general, Catholic. 89

NOTES

85 Kenny A. Franks, Stand Watie and the Agony of the Cherokee Nation, Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1979.

86 John Niven, Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy, New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.

87 John P. Dyer, Fightin’ Joe Wheeler, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1941.

88 Chris Armstrong, Christian History and Biography, “People Worth Knowing – No Little Women Here”, pp. 43-45; cf. also Bruce Allardice.

89 Murphy; cf. also Owen, Thomas M., “Alabama,” The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume I, <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01240a.htm> (2006)