A visitation of God : northern civilians interpret the Civil War /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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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" : the appropriation of scripture, politicized religion, and church division
- "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