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From: "Gary A. HALSTEAD" <>
Subject: [Q-R] Re: QUAKER-ROOTS-D Digest V01 #498
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:15:42 -0600


Subject: Re: [Q-R] Quaker serving in Rev War
I have read with interest, the many messages on this subject. This
subject is much like a "double-edged sword", in that it wounds you, no
matter which side of the blade you take.
If you will allow me the liberty, I will or can cite many instances when
the sword was taken up in the name of God - - - and the Bible appears to
tell us there were causes that God supported might for right. Equally,
there have been circumstances where individuals were forced into the
battle...I read in the back of my grandmother's bible, her comments
regarding he father from Guilford County...
"He was forced into service with the Confederate Army; deserted, captured
and forced into the Rebel Army, escaped and hid out from the Confederates
for 33 months until the end of the Civil War. He and his younger brother
John Widup were both sympathetic to the cause of the Union Army and did
not subscribe to the cause of the Confederacy."
What was the Quaker stand on the "slavery issue", and the "right of men
to be free"? And, did this differ much from the stand on the
Revolutionary War?
Gary Halstead

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