Dwight L. Moody

==Civil War==
[[File: Portrait of Dwight Lyman Moody (4669848).jpg|thumb|upright|Dwight Lyman Moody {{Circa|1870}}]]
{{Blockquote|The first meeting I ever saw him at was in a little old shanty that had been abandoned by a saloon-keeper. Mr. Moody had got the place to hold the meetings at night. I went there a little late; and the first thing I saw was a man standing up with a few tallow candles around him, holding a negro boy, and trying to read to him the story of the Prodigal Son and a great many words he could not readout, and had to skip. I thought, 'If the Lord can ever use such an instrument as that for His honor and glory, it will astonish me.' As a result of his tireless labor, within a year the average attendance at his school<!-- What school? --> was 650, while 60 volunteers from various churches served as teachers. It became so well known that the just-elected [[Abraham Lincoln|President Lincoln]] visited and spoke at a Sunday School meeting on November 25, 1860.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JmuuMa2uVTYC&q=It+became+so+well+known+that+the+just-elected+President+Lincoln+visited+and+spoke+at+a+Sunday+School+meeting+on+November+25,+1860&pg=PA114 |title=What Will A Man Give In Exchange For His Soul? |first=George D. |last=Johnson |date=26 October 2011 |publisher=Xlibris |isbn=9781465380982}}</ref>}}

D. L. Moody "could not conscientiously enlist" in the Union Army during the Civil War, later describing himself as "a [[Quaker]]" in this respect.<ref>Donald W. Dayton, ''Discovering an Evangelical Heritage'' (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), 134.</ref> After the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] started, he became involved with the [[United States Christian Commission]] of [[YMCA]]. He paid nine visits to the battlefront, being present among the Union soldiers after the [[Battle of Shiloh]] (a.k.a. [[Pittsburg Landing]]) and the [[Battle of Stones River]]; he also entered [[Richmond, Virginia]], with the troops of [[Ulysses S. Grant|General Grant]].

On August 28, 1862, Moody married Emma C. Revell, with whom he had a daughter, Emma Reynolds Moody, and two sons, William Revell Moody and [[Paul Dwight Moody]].