| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

While God Is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers. By Steven E. Woodworth. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. xii, 394 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1099-5.)

Abraham Lincoln, more detached than his devout contemporaries, saw the terrible irony of a war between Christian believers. "Both [sides] read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other," he noted in his second inaugural address, echoing musings he had made three years before. As the bloodletting neared its end, Lincoln not only knew that "the prayers of both could not be answered"; he had learned that "that of neither has been answered fully." . . .

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