minnegerode

Updated: May 11, 2025

I attended Saint Paul's, the fashionable Episcopalian church, where Lee, Davis, Memminger, and the rest had been communicants, and heard Doctor Minnegerode discourse. He was one of the Prussian refugees of 1848, and, though a hot Jacobin there, became a more bitter secessionist here. He is learned, fluent, and thoughtful, but speaks with a slight Teutonic accent.

George Alfred Townsend - Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,: and His Romaunt Abroad During the War

They reminded me of the captive Jews holding worship in their gutted Temple. Some ruffians broke into this church after the occupation, and wrote ribaldry in the Bible and hymn-book. Dr. Minnegerode dared not pray for the Confederate States, and his sermon was trite, based upon the text of the eleventh chapter of the Acts "The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch."

George Alfred Townsend - Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,: and His Romaunt Abroad During the War