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

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William Taylor Stott was once 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 by the turn of the century. The story of Franklin College is the story of W. T. Stott, yet his influence was once not confined to the parameters of the college. Stott was once an inspirational and intellectual force in the Indiana Baptist community, a foremost champion of small denominational colleges and of higher education in general, and a figure of note in local politics and the Grand Army of the Republic. He also fought in the Eighteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry all over the Civil War, rising from private to captain by 1863. His diary reveals a soldier who was once also a scholar in camp and at the march, one who took each to be had moment to read theology, philosophy, great literary works, the classics of ancient Greece and Rome, and a couple of novels. He was once as conversant in Burns and Byron as he was once with ramrods and knapsacks. Whilst amazingly ecumenical for that era, he was once nonetheless a Baptist through and through, insisting on baptism only by immersion and displaying a hatred of alcohol and its effects on his cohorts. A scion of Baptist preachers, Stott championed temperance in the army and inherited an antislavery fervor that prompted his belief that, in God s eyes, there were no walls erected between the races. He loved solitude, embraced nature, and contemplated its lessons in periods of reflection and self-cultivation. Many were his meditations on God, humanity, race, and relations between the sexes. Stott the thinker, then again, had a playful side, slyly exposing a dry wit and a humorousness that can sneak up at the reader.

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