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A visitation of God : northern civilians interpret the Civil War
- Title
- A visitation of God : northern civilians interpret the Civil War / Sean A. Scott.
- Author
- Scott, Sean A.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 347 p. : ill., ports.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- United States > Church history > 19th century
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Religious aspects
- Laity > United States > History > 19th century
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects
- War > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > 19th century
- Slavery and the church > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- IK 10-8425
- ISBN
- 9780195395990 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0195395999 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010010476
- OCLC
- YBP 2010010476
- Author
- Scott, Sean A.
- Title
- A visitation of God : northern civilians interpret the Civil War / Sean A. Scott.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-337) and index.
- Research Call Number
- IK 10-8425