While God is Marching on: The Religious World of Civil War SoldiersThey read the same Bible and prayed to the same God, but they faced each other in battle with rage in their hearts. The Civil War not only pitted brother against brother but also Christian against Christian, with soldiers from North and South alike devoutly believing that God was on their side. Steven E. Woodworth, a Civil War historian, presents the first detailed study of soldiers'' religious beliefs and how they influenced the course of that tragic conflict. He shows how Christian teaching and practice shaped the worldview of soldiers on both sides: how it motivated them for the struggle, how it influenced he way they fought, and how it shaped national life after the war ended. Through the diaries, letters, ad reminiscences of common soldiers, Woodworth illuminates religious belief from the home front to the battlefield, where thoughts of death and the afterlife were always close at hand. Woodworth reveals what these men thought about God and what they believed God thought about the war. |
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The following year the Baptists also broke along North - South lines , with
Southerners forming the Southern Baptist Convention . Presbyterianism was
already divided between New School and Old School adherents . Although that
schism did ...
The following year the Baptists also broke along North - South lines , with
Southerners forming the Southern Baptist Convention . Presbyterianism was
already divided between New School and Old School adherents . Although that
schism did ...
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The people of the South were unified , Polk claimed , in their determination “ to
perish rather than yield to the oppressor , who , in the name of freedom , yet
under the prime inspiration of an infidel horde , seeks to reduce eight millions of ...
The people of the South were unified , Polk claimed , in their determination “ to
perish rather than yield to the oppressor , who , in the name of freedom , yet
under the prime inspiration of an infidel horde , seeks to reduce eight millions of ...
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12 Much of the literature that was distributed was supplied by the Evangelical
Tract Society of the Confederacy , which was organized in Petersburg , Virginia ,
in July 1861 and supported by the various denominations throughout the South .
12 Much of the literature that was distributed was supplied by the Evangelical
Tract Society of the Confederacy , which was organized in Petersburg , Virginia ,
in July 1861 and supported by the various denominations throughout the South .
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In Such a Country as This | 3 |
The Actions of a Sovereign God | 27 |
In the Light of Gods Throne and the Presence of Jesus | 40 |
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| Título | While God is Marching on: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers Modern war studies |
| Autores | Steven E. Woodworth, Steven E.. Woodworth |
| Editor | University Press of Kansas, 2001 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 19 Sep. 2008 |
| ISBN | 0700610995, 9780700610990 |
| Largo | 394 páginas |
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