A visitation of God : northern civilians interpret the Civil War /
This text examines the Civil War from the perspective of the northern laity, those religious civilians whose personal faith influenced their views on politics and slavery, helped them cope with physical separation and death engendered by the war, and enabled them to discern the hand of God in the st...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- "If God saves not our country it must be lost" : providence, secession, and the outbreak of war
- "Until the great sin-- has been removed" : God's chastening, the sacred union, and emancipation
- "Try to live the life of a Christian" : the personal faith of women on the home front
- "Christian patriotism" in flush : political preaching, antiwar dissent, and summer thanksgiving
- "Exhorting you to be faithful to God and to men" : fatherly counsel and the path to Christian manhood
- "Discord sown among brethren" : church division and Bible appropriation
- "Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot cure" : civilian perspectives on death and eternity
- "God be thanked the nation and humanity were saved" : retribution against traitors, the reelection of Lincoln, and the termination of war
- "How mysterious are the ways of providence" : civilian attitudes toward the assassination of Lincoln.