October 5, 2001
'While God Is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers'
Was it god or bad aim that spared Moses A. Parker? For the Union Army private, there could be no doubt. "It was pretty close dogging for me to have a shell pass between my arm and side, and I think none but a Divine hand directed it."
Such claims on providence were common in the Civil War, says Steven E. Woodworth in While God Is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers (University Press of Kansas). Whether seen as clad in blue or gray, God's battlefield presence was a
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