Synopses & Reviews
In this closely documented study, Professor James W. Silver examines the role of the church in the South during the Civil War: what part it played as a powerful social institution in shaping the mind of the South, bringing on secession, and promoting the war, and to what extent its efforts succeeded or failed.
Review
"A first-rate book on a limited aspect of Confederate church history." Civil War Books
Synopsis
A study of the church's role in bringing on secession and promoting the Civil War, by the author of .