God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War
- ISBN-10
- 0807834262
- ISBN-13
- 9780807834268
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 586
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- George C. Rable
Description
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, Li
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