Peter Muhlenberg was an ordained Anglican pastor serving a Lutheran community in Woodstock, VA. Muhlenberg was authorized to raise and command as its colonel the 8th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army.  After George Washington personally asked him to accept this task, he agreed

Reverend Muhlenberg took his sermon text from the third chapter Ecclesiastes, which starts with "To everything there is a season..."; after reading the eighth verse, "a time of war, and a time of peace," he declared, "And this is the time of war," removing his clerical robe to reveal his Colonel's uniform.