Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-337) and index.
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.
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