Charles Reagan Wilson

A good resource for learning about Southern Christianity as it was practiced prior to, during, and after the American Civil War. Primarily, the protestant faith groups, Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, and Presbyterian are featured. Reverences to the Stone-Campbell religious heritage are few, and include R. Lin Cave (49, 167), Robert C. Cave (54), and Disciples of Christ in connection to the Ku Klux Klan (117).

Organization of the book is:
Preface to the 2009 Edition - The Lost Cause and the Civil Religion in Recent Historiography
Introduction - Origin and Overview
1. Sacred Southern Ceremonies - Ritual of the Lost Cause
2. Crusading Christian Confederates - Religious Myth of the Lost Cause
3. Abiding Children of Pride - Theology of the Lost Cause
4. A Southern Jeremiad - Critique of the New South
5. Morality and Mysticism - Race and the Lost Cause
6. J. William Jones - Evangelist of the Lost Cause
7. Schooled in Tradition - A Lost Cause Education
8. A Harvest of Heroes - Reconciliation and Vindication

Many notes are provided from primary and secondary sources. There is an excellent Bibliography. An Index is included.

The book may be considered a helpful resource to students of the American Civil War, and particularly to those who desire to learn more of the the role the Christian religion played during that period in American history.… (meer)