Table of Contents: A visitation of God :

Main Author:	Scott, Sean A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011
Subjects:	Laity > History > 19th century > Northwest, Old War > Religious aspects > 19th century > Christianity > History Slavery and the church > Northwest, Old Northwest, Old > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Religious aspects Northwest, Old > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects Northwest, Old > Church history > 19th century

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