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...stated that the Rev. Joseph Timothy O'Callahan [March 27] won the only Congressional Medal of Honor ever awarded to a chaplain. There has been at least one other-Chaplain John M. Whitehead of the 15th Indiana Infantry. The deed judged significant enough to merit the award occurred at the Civil War battle of Stone's River (near Murfreesboro, Tenn.) on Dec. 31, 1862. The medal was issued on April...
...Chaplain of the Tribe. Johnson goes often to Episcopal churches because Lady Bird, although raised a Methodist, became an Episcopalian after going to St. Mary's, an Episcopal junior college in Dallas. The Johnsons were married in an Episcopal church in San Antonio, and both Luci Baines and Lynda Bird are Episcopalians. At Camp Mystic in Texas, where she spent many summers, Luci often served as chaplain of her tribe because she could "pray so well when called on unexpectedly...
Richard E. Mumma, chaplain to Presbyterian students at Harvard and social education and action chairman of the Presbytery of Boston, has sent a memorandum to Boston-area Presbyterian ministers urging support of the rights bill...
...Japan on March 19, 1945, who gave last rites, organized rescue parties, carried ammunition from blistering magazines, helped make it back to port with the heaviest casualty list in U.S. naval history (432 dead, 1,000 wounded), winner of the only Congressional Medal of Honor ever awarded to a chaplain; of a ruptured aorta; in Worcester, Mass...
Formerly pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Tonawanda, N.Y., Roberts in 1962 became the first Protestant chaplain ever assigned to Moscow's U.S. colony. With his wife and daughter, he spent a year in Room 306 of the Sovietskaya Hotel, holding services on alternate Sundays at the British and American embassies. Finally the Soviet agency responsible for helping foreigners found him two adjoining apartments in a new building. Roberts had the wall separating his two living rooms torn down to create an area large enough for his church...