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Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares

The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict

By: John H. Matsui

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Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares

The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict

By: John H. Matsui

In Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares, John H. Matsui argues that the political ideology and racial views of American Protestants during the Civil War mirrored their religious optimism or pessimism regarding human nature, perfectibility, and the millennium. While previous historians have commented on the role of antebellum eschatology in political alignment, none have delved deeply into how religious views complicate the standard narrative of the North versus the South. Moving beyond the traditional optimism/pessimism dichotomy, Matsui divides American Protestants of the Civil War era into “premillenarian” and “postmillenarian” camps. Both postmillenarian and premillenarian Christians held that the return of Christ would inaugurate the arrival of heaven on earth, but they disagreed over its timing. This disagreement was key to their disparate political stances. Postmillenarians argued that God expected good Christians to actively perfect the world via moral reform—of self and society—and free-labor ideology, whereas premillenarians defended hierarchy or racial mastery (or both). Northern Democrats were generally comfortable with antebellum racial norms and were cynical regarding human nature; they therefore opposed Republicans’ utopian plans to reform the South. Southern Democrats, who held premillenarian views like their northern counterparts, pressed for or at least acquiesced in the secession of slaveholding states to preserve white supremacy. Most crucially, enslaved African American Protestants sought freedom, a postmillenarian societal change requiring nothing less than a major revolution and the reconstruction of southern society. Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares adds a new dimension to our understanding of the Civil War as it reveals the wartime marriage of political and racial ideology to religious speculation. As Matsui argues, the postmillenarian ideology came to dominate the northern states during the war years and the nation as a whole following the Union victory in 1865.

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0807175323

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The Swamp Fox

How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution

By: John Oller

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The Swamp Fox

How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution

By: John Oller

A popular, comprehensive biography of Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," covering his famous engagements as well as a private side of him that has rarely been explored

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Da Capo Press

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0306824574

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9780306824579

A Fine Day - The Civil War Diary of Captain Emanuel D. Roath, 107th PA Volunteers, 1864

By: John P. Mulcahy

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A Fine Day - The Civil War Diary of Captain Emanuel D. Roath, 107th PA Volunteers, 1864

By: John P. Mulcahy

The 1864 Civil War diary of Captain Emanuel D. Roath of the 107th Pennsylvania Regiment with details of combat actions and life in confederate prisons. A vivid, personal record of his role in the 1864 campaign in Virginia with the Army of the Potomac under General U. S. Grant and his months in southern prisons.

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Lulu.com

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1300107790

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9781300107798

Faith in the Fight

Civil War Chaplains

By: John Wesley Brinsfield

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Faith in the Fight

Civil War Chaplains

By: John Wesley Brinsfield

For both the Union and Confederate soldiers, religion was the greatest sustainer of morale in the Civil War, and faith was a refuge in times of need. Guarding and guiding the spiritual well-being of the fighters, the army chaplain was a voice of hope and reason in an otherwise chaotic military existence. The clerics' duties did not end after Sunday prayers; rather, many ministers could be found performing daily regimental duties, and some even found their way onto fields of battle.

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Stackpole Books

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0811700178

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9780811700177

Historical Sketch and Roster of the North Carolina 34th Infantry Regiment

By: John C. Rigdon

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Historical Sketch and Roster of the North Carolina 34th Infantry Regiment

By: John C. Rigdon

The North Carolina 34th Infantry Regiment was assembled at High Point, North Carolina, in October, 1861. Its members were recruited in the counties of Ashe, Rutherford, Rowan, Lincoln, Cleveland, Mecklenburg, and Montgomery. After serving in the Department of North Carolina, it was sent to Virginia and placed in General Pender's and Scales' Brigade. The 34th was active in the many campaigns of the army from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor and later participated in the Petersburg siege south of the James River and the operations around Appomattox.

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0359839495

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Faith in the Fight

Civil War Chaplains

By: John Wesley Brinsfield

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Civil War Chaplains

By: John Wesley Brinsfield

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General James Oglethorpe: From Georgia to Cranham Hall

By: John Phillips

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General James Oglethorpe: From Georgia to Cranham Hall

By: John Phillips

James Oglethorpe was a British aristocrat and philanthropist in the eighteenth century who pioneered prison reform in the United Kingdom before founding the state of Georgia as a classless society for poor people from England. He planned the town of Savannah as well as established a deep friendship with Native Americans. Oglethorpe refused to allow slavery in Georgia, despite strong opposition, and successfully defended Georgia from an attack by the Spanish in Florida. On his return to the UK, Oglethorpe became the senior general in the British army and supported the campaign to abolish slavery in the British Empire. General James Oglethorpe: From Georgia to Cranham Hall highlights Oglethorpe’s outstanding achievements, acknowledges some of his significant shortcomings, and offers reflection on his legacy both in Georgia and in the UK.

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Ambassador International

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1649603576

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Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares

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A Fine Day - The Civil War Diary of Captain Emanuel D. Roath, 107th PA Volunteers, 1864

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Faith in the Fight

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Historical Sketch and Roster of the North Carolina 34th Infantry Regiment

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General James Oglethorpe: From Georgia to Cranham Hall

General James Oglethorpe: From Georgia to Cranham Hall

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