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Gale, Dennis E. The Misunderstood History of Gentrification: People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915–2020

(“A Visitation of God”: Northern Civilians Interpret the Civil War [Oxford University Press 2011]), and Timothy L. Wesley (The Politics of Faith during the Civil War [Louisiana State University Press 2013]). Though uncited in the notes, Byrd’s analysis also echoes similar perspectives on religion in the lives of Civil War ministers, soldiers, and civilians plumbed by historians John Wesley Brinsfield, ed. (Faith in the Fight: Civil War Chaplains [Stackpole Books 2003] and The Spirit Divided: Memoirs of Civil War Chaplains—The Confederacy [Mercer University Press 2006]); Kent T. Dollar (Soldiers of the Cross: Confederate Soldier-Christians and the Impact of War on Their Faith [Mercer University Press 2005]); and Ben Wright and Zach Dresser, eds. (Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era [Louisiana State University Press 2013]). Scholars of American religion and the American Civil War era will not encounter any paradigm-shifting revelations herein, as historians have long since come to understand the centrality of religion and religious morality in the worldview of most Americans from the late eighteenth century through the end of the nineteenth century. These scholars will find, however, an unprecedented bevy of evidence corroborating that centrality through Byrd’s catalog of biblical references, all firmly contextualized within the war itself, as well as in the broader history of American religious development. That combination warrants acclamation as a seminal contribution to the continued development of both subfields, especially toward a better understanding of their mutuality. Though the breadth and depth of Byrd’s evidence and analysis might limit accessibility to only the most advanced undergraduates and general readers, Byrd’s consistently clear, concise, and compelling prose mitigates the density of his evidence to render this an imminently readable and compelling book worthy of a place on the bookshelf of anyone keen to understand the religious complexities of American identity and ideology; their place in the Civil War era; and, by implicit extension, their continued legacies in memory and popular culture.