Baptized in blood
Subtitle: the religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920
By: Charles Reagan Wilson.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820334257
Subjects: Christianity -- Southern States; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Religious aspects; Southern States -- Civilization
Notes: Originally published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1980. With a new pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the 2009 edition: The Lost Cause and the civil religion in recent; title: Historiography; title: Introduction: Origin and overview; title: Sacred southern ceremonies : ritual of the Lost Cause; title: Crusading Christian confederates : religious myth of the Lost Cause; title: Abiding children of pride : theology of the Lost Cause; title: A Southern Jeremiad : Lost Cause critique of the New South; title: Morality and mysticism : race and the lost cause; title: J. William Jones : evangelist of the Lost Cause; title: Schooled in tradition : a Lost Cause education; title: A harvest of heroes : reconciliation and vindication.