A visitation of God : northern civilians interpret the Civil War /
Scott, Sean A.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
2011.
"Confined geographically to: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa". (p. 5).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-337) and index.
"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.
Laity
War
Slavery and the church