A visitation of God : northern civilians interpret the Civil War /

Main Author: Scott, Sean A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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