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Collection Reference Number GLC01912
From Archive Folder Unassociated Civil War Documents 1862 
Title Ambrose Everett Burnside to Bishop Whittingham stating his belief that God will 'bring all our troubles to happy issue'
Date 8 January 1862
Author Burnside, Ambrose Everett (1824-1881)  
Recipient Whittingham, William Rollinson  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Burnside, commander of the North Carolina Expeditionary Corps, writes, "...I was so occupied with my military duties that I was compelled to forego the pleasure of attending to my private correspondence; but I can assure it was and has been ever since its receipt a great source of comfort, and encouragement to me- notwithstanding the dark clouds that may intervene, I have a faith that God will in His own good time bring all our troubles to a happy issue, and that if we do our whole duty with a firm reliance upon Him for support, all will be well with us..."
Subjects Religion  Civil War  Military History  Union General  
People Burnside, Ambrose Everett (1824-1881)  Whittingham, William Rollinson (1805-1879)  
Place written s.l.
Theme The American Civil War; Religion
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Additional Information William Rollinson Whittingham served as the Fourth Bishop of Maryland.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945