Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : religion, religious minorities, and the American Civil War
  • Politics and peoplehood in a restless republic
  • Our country is at war
  • Conscription, combat, and Virginia's "war of self-defense," 1861-1862
  • Negotiation and notoriety in Pennsylvania, 1862
  • Patterns of peace and patriotism in the Midwest
  • The fighting comes north, 1862-1863
  • Thaddeus Stevens and Pennsylvania Mennonite politics
  • Did Jesus Christ teach men war?
  • Resistance and revenge in Virginia, 1863-1864
  • Burning the Shenandoah Valley
  • Reconstructed nation, reconstructed peoplehood.