Showing Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War by Harry S. Stout

Upon the Altar of the Nation A profound and timely examination of the moral underpinnings of the War Between the States The Civil War was not only a war of armies but also a war of ideas, in which Union and Confederacy alike identified itself as a moral nation with God on its side. In this watershed book, Harry S. Stout measures the gap between those claims and the war's actual conduct. Ranging from the home front to the tren... Full description