＂There is a time to preach and a time to fight. And now is the time to fight.＂ With those words, the Rev. John Muhlenberg stepped from his pulpit, removed his clerical robe, revealing the
uniform of a Colonial officer, and marched off to war. Many of the ministers that became chaplains in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War carried muskets while administering to
the spiritual needs of the troops. Their eyewitness accounts describe the battles of Lexington and Concord, life on a prison ship, the burning of New York City, the Battle of Rhode Island, the
execution of Major Andre, and many other events.
