The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War.

"The authors show that religion, understood in its broadest context as a culture and community of faith, was found wherever the war was found: in the armies and

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

Both Prayed to the Same God is the first book-length, comprehensive study of religion in the Civil War. While much research has focused on religion in a specifi