Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union (Richard Carwardine -CH) tickets thousands greeted Grant’s return at

thousands greeted Grant’s return at San Francisco heralding him as a national hero

he would marry his adopted sister

cited the camp in Elmira as a place where Union authorities withheld adequate food and shelter and purposefully caused thousands to suffer in the bitter cold

and personal accounts to deliver a nuanced hour-by-hour overview of how the battle actually unfolded

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union (Richard Carwardine -CH) tickets thousands greeted Grant’s return atby Richard Carwardine The first major account of the American Civil War to give full weight to the central role played by religion, reframing the conflict through Abraham Lincolns contentious appeals to faith based nationalism How did slavery figure in Gods plan? Was it the providential role of government to abolish this sin and build a righteous nation? Or did such a mission amount to religious tyranny and pulpit politics, in an effort to strip the