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Recent Historiography on Religion and the Civil War by Bruce Gourley (Bibliography)

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Faust, Drew Gilpin.  “’Without Pilot or Compass’: Elite Women and Religion in the Civil War South.”  In Religion and the American Civil War, ed. Randall M. Miller, 250-260.  New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 

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Harvey, Paul.  “’Yankee Faith’ and Southern Redemption: White Southern Baptist Ministers, 1850-1890.”  In Religion and the American Civil War, ed. Randall M. Miller, 167-186.  New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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