The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War.

Americans have long considered their country to be good—a nation "under God" with a profound role to play in the world. Yet nothing tests that proposition lik

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 narrative

The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War.

In The Politics of Faith during the Civil War, Timothy L. Wesley examines the engagement of both northern and southern preachers in politics during the American