And Also With You: Duncan Gray and the American Dilemma (Thl

by Will D. Campbell

And Also With You is the remarkable story of Duncan Montgomery Gray Jr. (Episcopal Bishop of Mississippi, Chancellor of the University of the South), told by Will D. Campbell against the backdrop of racial conflict in the South and throughout the nation -- the "American Dilemma" of the title. It is also the story of the University Greys, a company of Confederate soldiers from the University of Mississippi. Campbell shows unmistakably and unforgettably how enduring the American Dilemma has been -- and still is.

Genres: Biography, History

274 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1997

About the author

Will Davis Campbell was a Baptist minister, lecturer, and activist.

Reviews

[Stephen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This moving book is a biography of one man, The Rt Rev Duncan Gray, Jr (1926-2016); a history of race relations in teh South (especially Mississippi) 1960s to 1990s; and a chronicle of a small group of Confederate soldiers from what we now call "Ole Miss" who all died in the American Civil War, mostly at Gettysburg. I mostly skipped the account of the University Greys to home in on Bishop Gray's life and work as a stalwart supporter of civil rights. "Nature might stand up and say to all the world 'This was a man.'"

Author Will D. Campbell (1924-3013) knew the territory he wrote of at first hand. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/us... The last pages of the book, in which "Brother Will" spends a day voluntarily with a former Imperial Wizard of the KKK are a tribute to Gray's Christ-like faith and a meditation on grace.

[Jeff Garrison · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was preparing to give this book away and noticed I hadn't posted it on my shelfari list. The book tells the story of Duncan Gray, a Episcopal priest in Oxford Mississippi at the height of the civil rights movement. Blended into the book is also the story of the "University Greys," a Southern unit made up of Ole Miss students that suffer greatly on the third day at Gettysburg.