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100 1  Byrd, James P.,|d1965-|eauthor. 
245 12 A holy baptism of fire and blood :|bthe Bible and the 
       American Civil War /|cJames P. Byrd. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bOxford University Press,|c[2021] 
300    376 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-360) and 
       index. 
505 0  "His terrible swift sword" -- "The stone which the 
       builders rejected" -- "The Red Sea of war" -- "This second
       war I consider equally as holy as the first" -- "A 
       covenant of death" -- "Trust in Providence and keep your 
       powder dry" -- "A holy baptism of fire and blood" -- 
       "Welcome to the ransomed" -- "Without shedding of blood is
       no remission" -- "The sword of the lord" -- "We cannot 
       escape history" -- "Of one blood all nations" -- "These 
       dead have not died in vain" -- "Cursed be he that keepeth 
       back his sword from blood" -- "Woe to that man by whom the
       offense cometh" -- "Baptized in the blood of their 
       president" -- Epilogue. "Pyrotechnics of providence." 
520    "In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln said 
       both North and South "read the same Bible and pray to the 
       same God, and each invokes His aid against the other." 
       Lincoln quoted several biblical texts in this address - 
       which, according to Frederick Douglass, "sounded more like
       a sermon than a state paper." The Bible, as Lincoln's 
       famous speech illustrated, saturated the Civil War. In 
       this book, James Byrd offers the most thorough analysis 
       yet of how Americans enlisted scripture to fight the Civil
       War. As Byrd reveals in this insightful narrative, no book
       was more important to the Civil War than the Bible. From 
       Massachusetts to Mississippi and beyond, the Bible was the
       nation's most read and most respected book. It brought to 
       mind sacred history and sacrifice. It presented a drama of
       salvation and damnation, of providence and judgement. It 
       was also a book of war. Americans cited the Bible in 
       addressing many wartime issues, including slavery, 
       secession, patriotism, federal versus state authority, 
       white supremacy, and violence. In scripture, both Union 
       and Confederate soldiers found inspiration for dying and 
       killing like never before in the nation's history. With 
       approximately 750,000 fatalities, the Civil War was the 
       deadliest of the nation's wars. Americans fought the Civil
       War with Bibles in hand, with both sides calling the war 
       just and sacred. This is a book about how Americans 
       enlisted the Bible in the nation's most bloody, and 
       arguably most biblically-saturated war"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
630 00 Bible|xStudy and teaching|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th 
       century. 
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650  0 Bible and politics|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 War|xReligious aspects|xChristianity|xHistory|y19th 
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650  0 Religion and politics|zUnited States. 
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650  7 Education.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00902499 
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650  7 Religion and politics.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01093842 
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       |0(OCoLC)fst01170382 
651  0 United States|xHistory|yCivil War, 1861-1865|xReligious 
       aspects|xChristianity. 
651  0 United States|xReligion|y19th century. 
651  0 United States|xReligious life and customs. 
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655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aByrd, James P., 1965-|tHoly baptism of 
       fire and blood|dNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, 
       [2020]|z9780190902810|w(DLC)  2020028350 
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