Robert Franklin Bunting

Robert Franklin Bunting (1828–1891) was an American Presbyterian minister and Confederate chaplain.

Early life Robert Franklin Bunting was born on May 9, 1828, in Hookstown, Pennsylvania. His father was John Bunting and his mother, Margaret Moody.

Bunting graduated from Washington College in 1849. During the American Civil War of 1861-1865, he served as a chaplain in the Terry's Texas Rangers of the Confederate States Army. When two colonels died, he explained that God had wanted to warn the soldiers about idolatry, suggesting they should only look up to God. During the war, Bunting was also a war correspondent to two newspapers,

His papers are held at the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. In 2006, the University of Tennessee press published Our Trust is in the God of Battles: The Civil War Letters of Robert Franklin Bunting, Chaplain, Terry's Texas Rangers, edited by Thomas W. Cutrer, a Professor emeritus of History and American Studies at Arizona State University.