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Baptized in Blood : The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920, PDF eBook

Baptized in Blood : The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 PDF

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Southerners may have abandoned their dream of a political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved their cultural identity by blending Christian rhetoric and symbols with the rhetoric and imagery of Confederate tradition.

Out of defeat emerged a civil religion that embodied the Lost Cause.

As Charles Reagan Wilson writes in his new preface, ""The Lost Cause version of the regional civil religion was a powerful expression, and recent scholarship affirms its continuing power in the minds of many white southerners.