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God's Almost Chosen Peoples - A Religious History of the American Civil War (Paperback)
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God's Almost Chosen Peoples - A Religious History of the American Civil War (Paperback)
Series: Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
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Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of
the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day,
but the standard narratives of the period pay scant attention to
religion. Now, in God's Almost Chosen Peoples, Lincoln
Prize-winning historian George C. Rable offers a groundbreaking
account of how Americans of all political and religious persuasions
used faith to interpret the course of the war. Examining a wide
range of published and unpublished documents--including sermons,
official statements from various churches, denominational papers
and periodicals, and letters, diaries, and newspaper
articles--Rable illuminates the broad role of religion during the
Civil War, giving attention to often-neglected groups such as
Mormons, Catholics, blacks, and people from the Trans-Mississippi
region. The book underscores religion's presence in the everyday
lives of Americans north and south struggling to understand the
meaning of the conflict, from the tragedy of individual death to
victory and defeat in battle and even the ultimate outcome of the
war. Rable shows that themes of providence, sin, and judgment
pervaded both public and private writings about the conflict.
Perhaps most important, this volume--the only comprehensive
religious history of the war--highlights the resilience of
religious faith in the face of political and military storms the
likes of which Americans had never before endured.
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