Yesterday I was greatly encouraged. Our Library Circulation Desk Lady told me she actually sent out God Caused the Civil War on Inter-library Loan!! OOORAH!! So, needless to say, Mr. Lists made a note in The One Year Book of Christian History to that effect for March 25th, 2010. A few folks have asked for some parts of the manuscript through email, but I haven't gotten any feedback so far; which might be a mercy, given the controversial material in it!The accompanying illustration is part of the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg; which is an interesting phenomenon that Confederate Daniel H. Hill pointed out in some of his writings. His point was that the opposing sides not only couldn't agree on their political points of view, but they couldn't even agree on what to call the battles...and later, the War itself. For instance, the North named battles by the closest natural landmark in several instances...Antietam Creek, Stone's River, and Bull Run Creek, while the South called these same battles Sharpsburg, Murfreesboro, and Manassas. Hill, a devout Christian and Stonewall Jackson's brother in law, pointed out the irony in the names in that the North, an industrial 'nation,' named things rurally while the South, an agrarian 'nation,' named them after cities. Go figger...
Well, I feel like marching to the sound of gunfire and Antietam is the next battle in my series of battles I'm fighting in command of the Union forces, so may your weekend be pleasant wherever you find yourself!!
Got forage for your cavalry's horses?
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