For Duty and Destiny: The Life and Civil War Diary of William Taylor Stott, Hoosier Soldier and Educator

by Lloyd A. Hunter

Overview

William Taylor Stott was a native Hoosier and an 1861 graduate of Franklin College, who later became the president who took the college from virtual bankruptcy in 1872 to its place as a leading liberal arts institution in Indiana. The story of Franklin College is the story of W. T. Stott, yet his influence was not confined to the school’s parameters. Stott was an inspirational and intellectual force in the Indiana Baptist community, and a foremost champion of small denominational colleges and of higher education in general. He also fought in the Eighteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, rising from private to captain by 1863. Stott’s diary reveals a soldier who was also a scholar.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780871953698
Publisher:	Indiana Historical Society Press
Publication date:	10/15/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	536
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Lloyd Hunter is professor emeritus of history and American studies at Franklin College. While at Franklin, he founded and directed the American Studies Program and occupied the Roger D. Branigin Chair of History.

Table of Contents

Preface Contents Prologue 1. Learning Duty and Sensing Destiny Part 1 2. A Missouri Odyssey and the Battle of Pea Ridge 3. Diary: August 1861–April 7, 1862 Part 2 4. To the Mississippi and the Vicksburg Campaign 5. Diary: April 8, 1862–August 20, 1863 Part 3 6. In Cajun Country and “On to Texas” 7. Diary: August 21, 1863–July 12, 1864 Part 4 8. With Sheridan in the Valley 9. Diary: July 13, 1864–December 23, 1864 Epilogue 10. The Grand Old Man of Franklin Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index