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'''Charles Oliver Brown''' was a congregational minister and bugler for [[William T. Sherman]] during the Civil War.<ref>[http://archive.freep.com/article/20130616/NEWS06/306160064/General%20Sherman%20war%20is%20hell%20speech Michigan history: Sherman gives his 'war is hell' speech]</ref>

==Social Gospel==
Brown's book ''Talks on the Labor Troubles'' is often mentioned <ref>[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=2248608 Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture], [[Cambridge University]]</ref> as one of the early clerical statements on American labor troubles.

The book is also important that Brown has been credited with coining the term ''[[Social Gospel]]''.<ref>{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=y18uEZ0_6BIC&pg=PA286 | last = Marty | first = Martin E. | title = Modern American Religion, Volume 1: The Irony of It All, 1893-1919 | publisher = University of Chicago Press | location = Chicago | year = 1997 | isbn = 978-0226508948 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_UuBqgF4NDIC&pg=PA285 | last = Gould | first = Rebecca | title = At home in nature modern homesteading and spiritual practice in America | publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley | year = 2005 | isbn = 978-0520241428 }}</ref> Brown was inspired by [[Henry George]]'s popular book, "[[Progress and Poverty]]".<ref>{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=kd9HAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA9 | last = Brown | first = Oliver | title = Talks on the Labor Troubles | year = 1886 }}</ref>

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