A Visitation of God: Northern Civilians Interpret the Civil War

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This book examines the Civil War from the standpoint of the northern laity, those religious civilians whose personal faith influenced their views on politics and slavery, helped them deal with physical separation and death engendered by the war, and in the long run enabled them to discern the hand of God Within the struggle to preserve the national Union.

From Lincoln’s election to his assassination, the book weaves together political, military, social, and intellectual history into a spiritual narrative of the Civil War at the northern home front. Packed with compelling human interest stories, this account draws on letters, diaries, newspapers and church records together with published sources to conclusively demonstrate that many devout civilians regarded the Civil War as a contest imbued with religious meaning. Within the process of giving their loyal reinforce to the government as individual citizens, religious Northerners politicized the church as a collective institution and used it to uphold the Union so the purified nation could promote Christianity all over the world. Christian patriotism helped win the war, but the politicization of religion didn’t lead to the redemption of the state.

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