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Military chaplains

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Bradford Edward Ableson Papers

 Collection
Call Number: RG 222
Abstract: These papers include correspondence, sermons, writings, and other documentation of the life and work of Bradford Edward Ableson, a Yale Divinity School graduate, Captain in the Chaplain Corps of the U.S. Navy, and clergyman. A prominent chaplain with a distinguished 25-year naval career, Captain Ableson provided combat ministry with Marines during Operation Desert Storm in the first Gulf War. From 1996 to 1999, he assumed Presidential Service duties as the Chaplain at Camp David, Maryland...
Dates: 1978-2010

Kempton D. Baldridge diary documenting his service in the Persian Gulf War

 Collection
Call Number: RU 823
Abstract:

The material consists of a travel diary documenting Reverend Kempton D. Baldridge's (Yale Divinity 1988) tenure as command chaplain aboard the U.S.S. Thomas S. Gates during Operation Desert Shield and the Persian Gulf War.

Dates: 1990-1991

Theodore James Holmes papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 831
Abstract:

The most significant part of the papers consists of the correspondence of Holmes and his wife, Ellen Holmes, between 1863 and 1865 during his service as chaplain in the 1st Connecticut Cavalry. Also in the papers are correspondence, minutes of meetings and resolutions relating to church affairs, 1859-1893.

Dates: 1846-1910