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Article: Righteous Armies, Holy Cause: Apocalyptic Imagery and the Civil War.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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By Terrie Dopp Aamodt. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2002. Pp. [xx], 236. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-738-6.)
As Terrie Dopp Aamodt emphasizes in Righteous Armies, Holy Cause, apocalyptic beliefs, ideas, and images not only permeated the culture of the United States in the mid-nineteenth century but also offered a usable lens through which Americans could view and interpret the events of the Civil War. Theologians and artists, preachers and politicians, poets and generals all employed millennial themes to describe the new world they hoped was being created by the war. Of course, the exact appearance and dimensions of the approaching millennial age depended in ...