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Upon the Altar of the Nation

A Moral History of the Civil War

by Harry S. Stout

2006 552 pages eng

Analyzes how both North and South claimed to have God's support during the American Civil War, in an account that explores how the war's moral conduct shifted from constitutional conflicts to a violent and unconditional quest for victory.

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