Charles Cardwell McCabe

Union Army chaplain

Charles Cardwell McCabe (October 11, 1836 – December 20, 1906), also known as "Bishop" C.C.McCabe and Chaplain C.C.McCabe, was an American who distinguished himself as a Methodist pastor, an Army chaplain during the American Civil War, a Church executive chiefly in the field of fundraising, as chancellor of American University, and as a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (M.E.), elected in 1896.

McCabe was credited by Julia Ward Howe as having popularized her famous piece "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" after his imprisonment by the Confederates in Libby Prison during the Civil War.