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first black military chaplain to minister to white soldiers during the American Civil War. Well the confederate take this page of history, one year before the union. Here is this great man story....
At Shiloh, a two-day battle in 1862 in which more than 23,000 American men were killed or wounded, the confederate 7th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment needed a chaplain. Fortunately, there was a man called of God in their midst.

Louis Napoleon Nelson

He was a private in Co. M, 7th Tennessee Cavalry.He began his military service as a cook, then a rifleman, rode with Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest during the war., and finally a chaplain. He would stay on as chaplain for the next four campaigns, leading services for both Confederate and Union soldiers. He latter on say this "number of Yankee soldiers joined during a worship service and, after its conclusion, “all shook hands and went back to fighting.