TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blum,Edward J.
AU  - Matsui,John H.
TI  - War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War 
SN  - 9780812299526
AV  - E468.9 .B64 2021
U1  - 973.7/78 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Devil
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Good and evil
KW  - History-United States
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American History
KW  - American Studies
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Slavery, Secession, and Satan --; Chapter 2. An Earthly Hell --; Chapter 3. Masks and Faces --; Chapter 4. To Fight Like Devils --; Chapter 5. Hell Let Loose --; Chapter 6. The God of This World --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - During his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln expressed hope that the "better angels of our nature" would prevail as war loomed. He was wrong. The better angels did not, but for many Americans, the evil ones did. War Is All Hell peers into the world of devils, demons, Satan, and hell during the era of the American Civil War. It charts how African Americans and abolitionists compared slavery to hell, how Unionists rendered Confederate secession illegal by linking it to Satan, and how many Civil War soldiers came to understand themselves as living in hellish circumstances.War Is All Hell also examines how many Americans used evil to advance their own agendas. Sometimes literally, oftentimes figuratively, the agents of hell and hell itself became central means for many Americans to understand themselves and those around them, to legitimate their viewpoints and actions, and to challenge those of others. Many who opposed emancipation did so by casting Abraham Lincoln as the devil incarnate. Those who wished to pursue harsher war measures encouraged their soldiers to "fight like devils." And finally, after the war, when white men desired to stop genuine justice, they terrorized African Americans by dressing up as demons.A combination of religious, political, cultural, and military history, War Is All Hell illuminates why, after the war, one of its leading generals described it as "all hell."
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812299526
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812299526
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