General Custer's Religious Experience

by Rev. Paul A. Hughes, M.Div.

In the Shenandoah Valley in the Fall of 1864, the Union Army was hard-pressed by the guerilla tactics of Confederate Lt. Col. John Singleton Mosby and his Rangers. The response from the armies of Sherman and Sheridan was ruthless, none more so than that of Brevet Maj. Gen. George Armstrong Custer and his colleague, Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt.

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Divine Parodies & Holy Histories:  with Select Poems:  Illustrations of Gospel Truth

What happens when God sends Elijah to a worship seminar?  Who will help the Little Red Hen evangelize her community?  How did a Japanese pilot who bombed Pearl Harbor become a Christian evangelist?  Why did a pastor hide his face with a cloth for the rest of his life?  Discover the answers to these and more in this collection of original illustrations written by the author, meant to convey and apply Biblical Christian principles.

ISBN 978-1-4303-0781-5 paperback, 104 pp., 6 x 9 in., with index.

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