With chapters organized both chronologically and thematically, and highlighting the experiences of soldiers, women, African Americans, chaplains, clergy, and civilians, this sourcebook provides a rich array of resources for scholars and students that highlights how religion was woven throughout the events of the war.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter 1—From the Election through Secession: November 1860 to June 1861
• “The Christian's Best Motive for Patriotism”—Robert L. Dabney
• “A Few Reflections on Secession”—Wilmington (N.C.) Herald
• “Our National Sins”—James Henley Thornwell
• “Against a Compromise of Principle”—Henry Ward Beecher
• “Thanksgiving Sermon”—Benjamin Morgan Palmer
• “I bow to what God will do”—James P. Boyce
• “The Character and Influence of Abolitionism”—Henry J. Van Dyck
• “The 20th Day of December in the Year of Our Lord, 1860”—Charleston Mercury
• “To the People of the United States”—James Buchanan
• “Fast Day Sermon”—Rabbi Bernard Illowy
• “Prayer for Rulers, or, Duty of Christian Patriots”—William Adams
• “Mutual Relation of Masters and Slaves as Taught in the Bible”—Joseph R. Wilson
• “Farewell Address in U.S. Senate”—Jefferson Davis
• “The Scriptural Vindication of Slavery”—Ebenezer W. Warren
• “Abraham Lincoln's Illinois Farewell Address”—Abraham Lincoln
• “Jefferson Davis's First Inaugural Address”—Jefferson Davis
• “Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address”—Abraham Lincoln
• “Constitution of the Confederate States”
• “Abolitionism Defined”—Illinois Daily State Journal
• “The Battle Set in Array”—Henry Ward Beecher
• “Cowardly and Unprovoked Attack”—Boston Advertiser
• “To the Men of the North and West”—Richard Henry Stoddard
• “May God Direct us All.”—Ann Stevens
• “A Catholic Priest's War Speech”—Father Creedon
• “The War Begun”—C. D. Helmer
• “The Camp, Its Dangers and Duties”—Henry Ward Beecher
• “An Impressive Scene”—Frank Moore
• “Christian Duty in the Present Time of Trouble”—Thomas Atkinson
• “The Spirit Proper to the Times”—James Walker
• “to get him appointed chaplain”—Robert McAllister
• “The men enjoy the sunday service much.”—William Y. W. Ripley
• “God has been good to me.”—James M. Campbell
• “The Silver Trumpets of the Sanctuary”—Stephen Elliott
• “the regiment marched to the First Baptist Church”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “A Sermon Preached in the First Baptist Meeting-House, Providence”—Samuel L. Caldwell
• “Baptism of the Big Gun”—Thomas H. Mooney
• “National Responsibility before God”—Benjamin M. Palmer
• “God's Presence with the Confederate States”—Stephen Elliott
• “God is still our Lord.”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• A CLOSER LOOK—AFRICAN AMERICANS
• “Steal Away to Jesus”—Traditional Negro Spiritual
• “My Father, How Long?”—Traditional Negro Spiritual
• The Oberlin Social and Sabbath School Hymn Book—Sixth Edition—George Nelson Allen
• Slave Songs and Spirituals
• “Slave Song”
• “The Heavenly Road”
• “The Abolition of Slavery”—Orestes A. Brownson
• “A National Hymn”—Park Benjamin Sr.
• “Let My People Go: A Song of the ‘Contrabands’”
• “The Freedman's Song”
• “The Yankee Canaan”—Macon (GA) Daily Telegraph
• “A Negro's Prayer”
• “The Nation's Sin and Punishment”—Stephen Alexander Hodgman
• “Nellie Norton: or, Southern Slavery and the Bible”—Ebenezer W. Warren
• “The Slave”—George Moses Horton
• Chapter 2—From First Manassas/Bull Run to the Ironclads: July 1861 to March 1862
• “Prayer was offered by Chaplain Jameson.”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “Let the world know you are a Christian.”—J. William Jones
• “The credit goes to God.”—Thomas J. Jackson
• “Our Duty Under Reverse”—John F. W. Ware
• “The Glory of God, the Defense of the South”—John T. Wightman
• “Lincoln and the First National Fast Day”—Abraham Lincoln
• “We had a nice service.”—Robert McAllister
• “To ask the Divine blessing upon our country.”—Macon (GA) Daily Telegraph
• “God Bless Egypt.”—Illinois State Register
• “A Soldier's Funeral”—Alonzo H. Quint
• “A Sermon Delivered in the Market Street M.E. Church”—Robert Newton Sledd
• “Bring that High Power to our assistance.”—John Beatty
• “The Justice of Our National Cause”—John C. Lord
• “The Divineness of Human Government”—A L. Stone
• “The National Weakness”—F. H. Hedge
• “to appeal daily for help from on high”—Abner R. Small
• “Parson Strong is dull.”—John Beatty
• “The Prayer of the C.S. Soldiers”—Max Michelbacher
• “to live or die like a Christian soldier”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “How thoughtless are the multitude around us.”—Robert McAllister
• “I hope you are getting on nicely.”—Levi Warren Norton
• “open their eyes to see their folly and sin”—Illinois Daily State Journal
• “I cannot feal as bad as his Mother.”—Henry H. Wilder
• “God Our Refuge and Strength in this War”—T. V. Moore
• “God in the War”—Henry H. Tucker
• “enjoying the way of salvation”—Robert McAllister
• “Battle Hymn of the Republic”—Julia Ward Howe
• “I expect to begin to attend church regularly next Sunday”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “Modes and Duties of Emancipation”—Henry Ward Beecher
• “I could not preach in camp.”—James M. Campbell
• “A Thanksgiving Sermon”—B. W.Chidlaw
• “Hardships of a Chaplain's Life”—Gamaliel Collins
• “The Church and Slavery”—Quincy (IL) Daily Whig and Republican
• “Address of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church”
• “The Dictator in New York”—Macon (GA) Daily Telegraph
• “the tide of irreligion that is rolling over us”—Robert McAllister
• “attended church in the evening”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “Chaplain Reports”— Chauncey Hobart
• “Sketch of Dabney Carr Harrison”—Rev. William J. Hoge
• “We pitched tents”—William H. Daniels
• “Jefferson Davis's Second Inaugural Address”—Jefferson Davis
• “Fast Day”—Henry C. Lay
• “New Wine Not to be Put into Old Bottles”—Stephen Elliott
• “if I die upon the battlefield”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “if it is my fate to die”—George M. Lanpher
• “Grace to continue to serve Him and my country”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “Stand by the Old Republican Party”—Illinois State Journal
• A CLOSER LOOK—ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY
• Chapter 3—From Shiloh to Emancipation: April to September 1862
• “trusting that God will bring us safety”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “Work in the Army of Tennessee”—J. William Jones
• “Songs upon the Battle-Field”—Frank Moore
• “Albert Sidney Johnston”—Kate Brownlee Sherwood
• “George Barton's Battlefield Angels”—George Barton
• “I was greatly troubled but called on Him”—Edwin H. Fay
• “First Proclamation for Thanksgiving”—Abraham Lincoln
• “May God help us win the victory”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “Treason was consummated!”—Henry Ward Beecher
• “I have served the cause of my God”—Isaac T. Tichenor
• “Oh, how necessary religion is to war”—Robert McAllister
• “the war will end in God's own time”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “When will this horrid war cease?”—Edwin H. Fay
• “The army was of God”—John Beatty
• “God's Providence in War”—Joel W. Tucker
• “His Great Faith”—James F. Wilson
• “May God help us”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “You ask me to read my Bible”—Edwin H. Fay
• “an instrument in God's hands”—New York Tribune
• “I, by the goodness of God, escaped unhurt”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “that this horrid war may be speedily closed”—Edwin H. Fay
• “the weaker party are now the oppressors”—Horace James
• “we shall meet on earth or in Heaven”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “O! Lord, grant a little every-day sense”—John Beatty
• “he stepped into the midst of his sleeping flock”—George S. Bernard
• “Governor Yates Addresses Slavery”— Richard Yates
• “The Bible Society of the Confederate States”—Macon (GA) Daily Telegraph
• “we had church service today”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “The Prayer of Twenty Millions”—Horace Greeley
• “Dirge for a Soldier”—George Henry Boker
• “General Smith isn't a preacher at all”—Frank Moore
• “The prayers for soldiers are not in vain”—Sylvanus Landrum
• “Vermont Obituary”—Lamoille (VT) Newsdealer
• “I am grateful to God for all his mercies to me”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “Our National Reverses”—James D. Liggett
• “Reply to Emancipation Memorial”—Rev. William W. Patton and Rev. John Dempster
• “Stonewall Jackson's Way”—John Williamson Palmer
• “Our Cause in Harmony with the Purposes of God in Christ Jesus”—Stephen Elliott
• “We have a large religious element in this regiment”—Robert McAllister
• “there is so much profanity, so little regard for religion”—Edwin H. Fay
• “a humble instrument in the hands of our Heavenly Father”—Abraham Lincoln
• “Discourse on the Death of General Joseph K. F. Mansfield”—John L. Dudley
• “National Injustice and Penalty”—Henry Ward Beecher
• “May God prepare us all for this event”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “Meditation on the Divine Will”—Abraham Lincoln
• A CLOSER LOOK—WOMEN
• Women and the Commissions
• Sarah Rosetta Wakeman
• Bridget Divers
• “Letters from the Sanitary Commission”—Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Mrs. John Harris
• John Lamar Rebecca Harding Davis
• Mrs. Stephen Barker
• Frances E. W. Harper
• “Sister, is it true that you belong to the Catholic Church?”—Sister Anthony O'Connell
• Margaret Breckinridge
• Chapter 4—From Corinth to Vicksburg: October 1862 to April 1863
• “Here, Chaplain, make yourself useful.”—Abner R. Small
• “Pray, pray, dear Brother, for me.”—Peter Paul Cooney
• “God bless you and keep you.”—Thomas K. Beecher
• “I belong to your church.”—John H. W. Stuckenberg
• “The LORD appeared again; in Shiloh.”—J. Lansing Burrows
• “Appeal for the Freedmen”—American Missionary Association
• “Hope for Our Country”—Israel E. Dwinell
• “in the hands of our Heavenly Father”—Abraham Lincoln
• “I thanked God that I have been spared.”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “called on to perform every variety of duty”—Charles Spear
• “I am not working for any church but for Jesus”—Andrew Jackson Hartsock
• “The Sunday rest Order”—Abraham Lincoln
• “What must God think of such a posture of affairs?”—Rev. Byron Sunderland
• “May the grace of God sustain this afflicted family.”—John S. Colegrove
• “This Sabbath desecration has a bad effect upon the army.”—Andrew Jackson Hartsock
• “We have prayer meeting tonight on the same spot.”—Robert McAllister
• “pleasant evidence of return to God”—J. William Jones
• “that they may live forever in the kingdom of God”—John Chandler Gregg
• “A Yankee War Prayer”—Chaplain of the United States Congress
• “The Jews … are hereby expelled.”—Ulysses S. Grant
• “God bless our noble comrades.”—Andrew Jackson Hartsock
• “in the end the Union will be restored”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• Emancipation Proclamation—Abraham Lincoln
• “keep the engine of the rebellion going”—Frank Moore
• Responses to General Order No. 11—United Order Bne B'rith Missouri Lodge and Executive Committee of the New York Board of Delegates of American Israelites
• “the gracious favor of the God of Nations”—Abraham Lincoln
• “their last solemn petition to God!”—John Beatty
• “this quasi religious war”—John Reynolds
• “that they may be profited by the Word”—Francis Milton Kennedy
• “the signal manifestations of Divine mercy”—Robert E. Lee
• “Let us recognize the hand of God.”—Biblical Recorder
• “what in the name of heaven”—Daily Illinois State Journal
• “Religion in the 78th”—Chaplain R. F. Taylor
• “He who unjustly rebells rebells against the will of God.”—Peter Welsh
• “Religious Amendment of the U.S. Constitution”—National Convention to Secure the Religious Amendment of the Constitution of the United States
• “God had healed his backslidings”—David K. Titus
• “says Christ, he that is not for me is against me”—George B. Boyd
• “thus by the will of God”—Peter Welsh
• “Oh that I could love him [God] as I ought!”—Edwin H. Fay
• “Danger tests the christian's faith and the skeptic's doubts.”—Charles H. W. Stuckenberg
• “a band of Christian soldiers”—William W. Bennett
• “Ride In, Kind Saviour”—Charles Northam
• “that grand and incomprehensible Being who controls the universe”—Macon (GA) Daily Telegraph
• “but God has thought it best”—Stephen Elliott
• “certain races are permanently inferior”—James Warley Miles
• “we have forgotten God”—Abraham Lincoln
• “Mr. Jackson has been the victim of prejudice.”—James Henry Gooding
• “Chaplains ought to be where they can do good.”—Robert McAllister
• “God has inscribed her doom”—Henry Timrod
• “rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings”—Illinois State Register
• “as servants of the Most High God”—Protestant ministers of the Confederacy
• “Let us all be thankful.”—Illinois State Register
• A CLOSER LOOK—SERMONS
• “A Sermon Preached on the National Fast Day”—Orville Dewey
• “A Sermon Delivered by Rev. Daniel I. Dreher”—Daniel I. Dreher
• “Reverses Needed: A Discourse Delivered on the Sunday after the Disaster of Bull Run”— Horace Bushnell
• “God's Presence with Our Army at Manassas!”—Stephen Elliott
• “A Fast-Day Sermon”—R H. Lafferty
• “God, the Giver of Victory and Peace”—Joseph M. Atkinson
• “that the Israelite is oppressing the people”—Max Michelbacher
• “Patriotism, a Christian Virtue”—Joseph Fransioli
• “The true christian is always a true patriot.”—John Paris
• “Without Divine protection our armies are impotent.”—Henry A. Boardman
• “Abraham Lincoln was one of the Lord's people.”—Robert Lowry
• Chapter 5—From Chancellorsville to Stalemate: May to December 1863
• “give glory to God for our defeats”—Macon (GA) Daily Telegraph
• “Heabenly Massa bress de Linkum sojers.”—Abner R. Small
• “it looked like anything but a day of humiliation and prayer”—James Henry Gooding
• “I do not like so much death and destruction.”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “For the Christian hero, beloved of all”—Caroline Augusta Ball
• “his Christian character is well worthy of earnest study”—J. William Jones
• “True Courage”—Robert L. Dabney
• “True Eminence Founded on Holiness”—James Beverlin Ramsey
• “it seems to me it would have made me a Christian”—Milton L. Haney
• “relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power”—Abraham Lincoln
• “God has used the hand of a wicked nation”—Baptist General Association of Virginia
• “barbarous welfare”—Illinois State Register
• “God will bring us through safe.”—Oliver S. Munsell
• “The State of Religion in Bragg's Army”—Macon (GA) Daily Telegraph
• “We will be able to withstand them, God willing.”—Robert McAllister
• “We won the victory, thank God.”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “a general absolution to all the men before going into the fight”—William Corby
• “Pray that God may receive my soul.”—John Moseley
• “and got down on my knees before Almighty God”—James Rusling and Daniel Sickles
• “This war is crippling our churches.”—Andrew Jackson Hartsock
• “A Christian Confederate Soldier's Prayer”—Anonymous
• “We shall meet in heaven.”—Frank Moore
• “He never once said we were sinners.”—John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware
• “it has pleased Almighty God”—Abraham Lincoln
• “may God protect and bless you”—Edwin H. Fay
• “Are We Defeated?”—Macon (GA) Daily Telegraph
• “Fast Day Sermon”— Isaac T. Tichenor
• “Ezra's Dilemma”— Stephen Elliott
• “Our last Chaplain never did any good in the Regiment.”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “Many men of this army are daily professing religion.”—John B. Gordon
• “Die as soldiers of the Lord Jesus Christ”—William W. Lyle
• “Jesus, have mercy on my soul!”—John Beatty
• “God Honors Man's Ultimate Success”—Moses Smith
• “The negroes may get to Heaven and some whites be shut out.”—Andrew Jackson Hartsock
• “happy in the love of God”—Rev. A. B. Stephens
• “The reverend LL.D. had prepared a regular war sermon.”—Sam Watkins
• “A Proclamation of Thanksgiving”—Abraham Lincoln
• “I wonder how you think the people of Memphis can thank God.”—Mary Lee Thorne
• “Gettysburg Address”—Abraham Lincoln
• “Consecration Chant”—Benjamin B. French
• “God's Presence and Purpose in Our War”—Wilbur F. Paddock
• “A Discourse before the General Assembly of South Carolina”—Benjamin Morgan Palmer
• “I am going, if God wills, to see the end of this wicked rebellion.”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• A CLOSER LOOK—BOOKS
• “The Coming Crisis of the World”—Hollis Read
• “But a wounded man is our brother!”—Katharine Wormeley
• “My trust is in God”—George B. McClellan
• “All felt the presence of the Holy Spirit”—Lemuel Moss
• “In victory and defeat, his heart turned to God”—John B. Gordon
• “and his spirit went up to God”—Milton L. Haney
• “They are certainly evangelizing the chaplain.”—Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• “He is pushing us forward to His, not our, Millennium”—Gilbert Haven
• “God determined that it should die by suicide.”—George B. Ide
• Chapter 6—From Stalemate to Crater: January to August 1864
• “if God spares my life”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “Out of this war comes piety as well as patriotism.”—Rev. Dr. Charles Eddy
• “the outpouring of God's Holy Spirit on our little regiment”—Robert McAllister
• “I listened to an excellent practical sermon.”—Jenkin Jones
• “Familiar Bible texts met the eye from over the pulpit.”—Abner R. Small
• “with the Bible open beneath his hand”—Christian Commission
• “Many are coming out on the side of the Lord.”—Robert McAllister
• “I began a systematic study of the Bible.”—George S. Bernard
• “A Christian Association was formed.”—J. William Jones
• “God did greatly bless and comfort our hearts.”—Rev. John J. D. Renfroe
• “They shall see that all churches are open.”—Anonymous
• “We have dedicated our new Chapel Tent.”—Charles C. Parker
• “to take possession of all Baptist churches”—Macon (GA) Daily Telegraph
• “The Devout Soldier”—Henry C. Lay
• “Confederate Proclamation of Humiliation and Prayer”—Jefferson Davis
• “War with Amalek!”—David Einhorn
• “This war is breaking down the barriers between beliefs and creeds.”—Theodore F. Upson
• “May we have a happy admittance into thy Kingdom above.”—William Russell
• “I call it a Methodist and Baptist revival.”—Louis L. Demilly
• “a Sabbath to our souls”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “He is now a most fervent Catholic.”—Peter Paul Cooney
• “My aim in preaching is to elevate rather than to convert.”—Charles Alfred Humphreys
• “The first ball struck the Bible on the edge and penetrated.”—Charles H. Dobbs
• “Pray for me, pray for me; it'll be all over soon.”—Rev. Edward P. Smith
• “Religion is at the lowest ebb.”—Macon Daily Telegraph
• “religiously the regiment is doing about as well”—Oliver P. Light
• “He had strong religious convictions and had no fears in regard to death.”—Rice C. Bull
• “both himself and his wife have their hearts to Christ”—Elisha L. Barney
• “Hundreds were giving their hearts to God.”—Rev. Robert J. Harp
• “I thought God would hear my prayers.”—Charles J. Oliver
• “The chaplain should have prayer daily at dress parade.”—John E. Robie
• “May God forgive the men who brought about this war.”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “That I may die for the sacred cause in which I am engaged”—Charles Chiniquy
• “The Chaplain is buried and my orderly lies by his side.”—Robert McAllister
• “They called him ‘Bishop Polk’”—Sam Watkins
• “Special Order No. 31”—Headquarters of U.S. forces in Natchez
• “A nation has never been destroyed while on its knees.”—Macon (GA) Daily Telegraph
• “with the fortitude & resignation of a Christian”—Rachel B. Stevens
• “Funeral Services at the Burial of the Right Rev. Leonidas Polk”—Rev. Stephen Elliott
• “render to the Almighty and merciful Ruler of the Universe”—Abraham Lincoln
• “God watched over me & cherished me.”—George G. Smith
• “He is a good Christian whose heart is in our country and cause.”—Robert McAllister
• “deliverance of our city from the ruthless hand of the invader”—Macon (GA) Daily Telegraph
• “all who believe in the efficacy of prayer”—Macon (GA) Daily Telegraph
• A CLOSER LOOK—POETRY
• “The Nineteenth of April”—Lucy Larcom
• “The South Carolina Hymn of Independence”—Claudian Bird Northrop
• “Jeff Davis on His Election as President for Six Years”—Lucius Manlius Sargent
• “The Bivouac in the Snow”—Margaret Junkin Preston
• “The Battle of Shiloh Hill”—M. B. Smith
• “Shiloh: A Requiem”—Herman Melville
• “The Moses of the South!”—Harry L. Flash
• Chapter 7—From Atlanta to Abolition: September 1864 to February 1865
• “it pleased God to pour out His spirit upon us”—Charles J. Oliver
• “Oh God, how long will this cruel war last [?]”—Thomas H. Deavenport
• “devout acknowledgement to the Supreme Being”—Abraham Lincoln
• “but God knows best and ruled otherwise”—Abraham Lincoln
• “We need his folly and his fanaticism.”—Stephen Elliott
• “We had a nice church service.”—Robert McAllister
• “May God forgive the sins of our people.”—Macon Daily Telegraph
• “Every day shows that slavery is doomed the world over.”—Mary Chesnut
• “But God has been good to me.”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “It has pleased Almighty God to prolong our national life.”—Abraham Lincoln
• “He [Chaplain Cline] is loved by all who know him.”—Robert McAllister
• “unite in prayer to our Heavenly Father”—Jefferson Davis
• “the priest who becomes a soldier is degraded”—Father Hennessy
• “It is no pleasure to me to triumph over anyone.”—Abraham Lincoln
• “I can say ‘God's will be done’”—John Wilkes Booth
• “to bring about that righteous result”—George E. Ellis
• “All denominational bigotry was buried for the time.”—James D. Anthony
• “a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom”—Abraham Lincoln
• “I call that holding Divine Service under fire.”—Robert McAllister
• “This is a loyal church.”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “I am not much of a judge of religion.”—Abraham Lincoln
• “The principles of religion underlie republicanism.”—Lyman Abbott
• “He does what man can do and leaves the rest to God.”—Macon (GA) Daily Telegraph
• “but if we fall”—Charles F. E. Minnigerode
• “Our bowels will yearn over them.”—A. L. Stone
• “Time heals all things at last.”—Harriet Beecher Stowe
• “Hear from my wife. Sick. God be with her!”—Alexander D. Betts
• “Drums are beating for church.”—Robert McAllister
• “I invited them to come to God.”—E. B. Duncan
• “that which God hath put asunder”—Daily Dispatch of Richmond
• “Oh, God, can I ever forget that night?”—Eleanor Cohen Seixas
• “to furnish our entire army with a neat and legible Bible”—Macon (GA) Daily Telegraph
• A CLOSER LOOK—CHAPLAINS
• “There is much wickedness in camp.”—James M. Campbell
• “Go, and God speed you!”—George H. Hepworth
• “I hardly had an opportunity to look at my Bible”—Edward P. Stone
• “the uselessness of chaplains in the military service”—Thomas K. Beecher
• “I read the Bible and conversed with him.”—Chauncey B. Thomas
• “For the better Christian a man is, the better soldier he is.”—J. William Jones
• “and when Death beats his low tattoo for you”—Charles C. McCabe
• “A wounded Chaplain will be a curiosity in Washington”—Walter W. Smith
• “my tears and grief are fresh”—William Corby
• Chapter 8—From Expectations to Hope for Reconciliation: March to July 1865
• Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address—Abraham Lincoln
• “We have some interesting prayer meetings.”—Robert McAllister
• “They are in the hands of that Providance.”—Henry William Ravenel
• “the accursed thing, which has lost us the favor of God”—Stephen Elliott
• “the call to preach the gospel of Christ”—William W. Bennett
• “God bless and keep you all.”—Henry Rinker
• “Glory to God in the highest.”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “He from whom all blessings flow.”—Abraham Lincoln
• “God bless these brave fighters.”—Atticus G. Haygood
• “This country was formed for the white, not for the black man.”—John Wilkes Booth
• “Banish these felons thither!”—George Dana Boardman
• “Good men and angels will cry out.”—Henry Ward Beecher
• “if it be God's will”—Ann Eliza Smith
• “What a crime before God and Heaven!”—Robert McAllister
• “God help, guide and save us all!”—Thomas W. Caskey
• “He had gone with us like Moses.”—Rev. J. B. Thomas
• “It is finished.”—C. B. Crane
• “These are the wretches with whom we have to deal.”—Daniel C. Eddy
• “that they devoutly implore Almighty God”—William Bross
• “unite in one more prayer”—Macon Daily Telegraph & Confederate
• “if our great Abraham could address us now”—Sabato Morais
• “As Moses was meek so was Lincoln.”—Samuel Adler
• “It has been said that the South should be held responsible.”—J. Lansing Burrows
• “The church was draped in black.”—Catherine Parker
• “God have mercy on them for we wont—No! Never.”—Dr. Joseph Rutherford
• “Oh my God why dost thou so afflict my beloved country.”—Edwin H. Fay
• “But God was gracious to me and spared my life.”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “The Heavens are his home.”—Richard S. Storrs
• “Let all who truly love the Union now bury past dissensions.”—Richard Fuller
• “We should recognize in it the will of God.”—Macon (GA) Daily Telegraph
• “Thank God that it is over and that the Union is restored.”—Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• “Without the shedding of blood there is no remission.”—Horace Bushnell
• “Against all this be on your guard.”—Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church
• A CLOSER LOOK—MUSIC
• “The Confederate Flag!”—Sig. G. George & Mrs. C. D. Elder
• “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh”—William Shakespeare Hays
• “Riding a Raid”—Traditional song
• “God Save the South”—Charles W. A. Ellerbrock & George H. Miles
• “God Save the Grand Old Stars and Stripes!”—Mrs. S. G. Knight & Dr. John L. Sullivan Jr.
• “God Save Our Noble Union”—George W. Bungay
• Bibliography