How many soldiers were Christians in the Battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 1

According to the book "The Life of Billy Yank" the religion, in the army, was a conventional kind stressing recognized forms and services. The Union Army was a majority of Protestant with a strong leaning toward evangelical denominations, especially Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian. Catholics were also in plenty especially among the Irish, French and Italian soldiers. Units from large cities also had some Jews. There was a chaplain for each regiment for each post and after May 1862 for hospitals. In volunteer regiments chaplains were selected by vote of the field officers and commanders, approved by the state governor and officially appointed by the War Department. Hospital and post chaplains were chosen by the President. At first there were no qualifications, but after May 4, 1861 an appointee had to be "regularly ordained minister of some Christian denomination". Forms of worship varied, but the usual Sunday service was held in the afternoon to avoid conflict with the weekly inspection in the morning. As far as a specific battle it would have been a mixture of the above for both sides.