William Bennett was a chaplain for the Confederate Army during the Civil War. In this expansive narrative, Bennett discusses the Great Christian Revival in the

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War.

In recent years, the intersection of religion and the American Civil War has been the focus of a growing area of scholarship. However, primary sources on this s