| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Steven E. Woodworth. While God is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers. (Modern War Series.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2001. Pp. xii, 394. $29.95.

The greatest contribution that Steven E. Woodworth makes in this thoughtful volume is his demonstration of how important and life-determining religion was to common people in America during the mid-nineteenth century. More specifically, he emphasizes the role of evangelical religion (for the most part, Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians) in the lives of Civil War soldiers, North and South. For too many historians, the pivotal role of religion in American history has been marginalized. This may be because religion in the twenty-first century is not so central to American life and thought, or it may be because religion is not important to the historian in question; in any event, Woodworth's book goes a long way to rectify the scholarly neglect. . . .

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