A Visitation of God
Subtitle: northern civilians interpret the Civil War
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195395990
Table of contents: title: "If God saves not our country it must be lost" : providence, secession, and the outbreak of war; title: "Until the great sin has been removed" : God's chastening, the sacred union, and emancipation; title: "Try to live the life of a Christian" : the personal faith of women on the home front; title: "Christian patriotism" in flush : political preaching, antiwar dissent, and summer thanksgiving; title: "Exhorting you to be faithful-- to God and to men" : fatherly counsel and the path to Christian manhood; title: "Discord sown among brethren" : the appropriation of scripture, politicized religion, and church division; title: "Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot cure" : civilian perspectives on death and eternity; title: "God be thanked the nation and humanity were saved" : retribution against traitors, the reelection of Lincoln, and the termination of war; title: "How mysterious are the ways of providence" : civilian attitudes toward the assassination of Lincoln