With it was born the South’s embrace of religion as its moral defense and its motive force. When news spread of the surrender of Fort Sumter on April 13 and of Lincoln’s call for 75,000 troops, one southern state after another seceded and the Confederacy (of 11 states in all) was born. The perspective of what would quickly become the “Confederate States of America”-the southern perspective-balanced on two points: first, that the individual state was sovereign, even to the point of secession second, that the “peculiar institution” of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Yet it immediately raised to national crisis a conflict that had been spilling blood regionally for decades. The Civil War began with a largely symbolic battle at Fort Sumter, a battle in which the only fatality was a (southern) horse. Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Christianity, Yale Divinity School Professor of History, Religious Studies, and American Studies The Religious Origins of Manifest Destinyĭivining America is made possible by grants from the Lilly Endowment and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Religion in the Civil War: The Northern Perspective Religion in the Civil War: The Southern Perspective, Divining America, TeacherServe©, National Humanities CenterĮvangelicalism & the Second Great Awakening
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