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John Christian Keener was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church,South,an author and an editor,and the superintendent of C.S.A. Chaplains west of the Mississippi River during the American Civil War. He wrote several books on theology and edited the New Orleans Christian Advocate,a weekly Methodist newspaper sponsored by Methodist conferences in Louisiana and various nearby states in the late-19th and early-20th century. A collection of Keener's papers,available at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript,Archives,and Rare Book Library at Emory University,include correspondence and military orders related to the return of property to the Methodist Church,South,after the war.
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