Following is a partial bibliography of works related to, or relevant to, the topic of Baptists and the Civil War.
A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South
Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2009
Eugene D. Genovese
A Necessary Evil?: Slavery and the Debate Over the Constitution
Madison: Madison House, 1995
John P. Kaminiski
A Visitation of God: Northern Civilians Interpret the Civil War
Oxford University Press, 2012
Sean A. Scott
“Baptists and the Civil War”
Baptist History & Heritage Journal
Vol. 32, Nos. 3 and 4, July/October 1997
Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause: 1865-1920
Athens, Ga: University of Georgia Press, 2009
Charles Reagan Wilson
Broken Churches, Broken Nations
Macon, Ga: Mercer University Press, 2009
C. C. Goen
Chaplain to the Confederacy: B. Manly and Baptist Life in the Old South
Louisiana State University Press, 2000
James Fuller
“Conditions of Antebellum Slavery”
Africans in America, Public Broadcasting Corporation
Creation of Confederate Nationalism
Louisiana State University Press, 1990
Drew Gilpin Faust
Diverging Loyalties: Baptists in Middle Georgia During the Civil War
Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2011
Bruce T. Gourley
“Faith, Freedom, Forgiveness: Religion and the Civil War, Emancipation and Reconciliation in Our Time”
Baptist History & Heritage Journal
Vol. 49, No 2, Summer 2013
Note: This journal edition includes extensive bibliographies
God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010
George C. Rable
Masters, Slaves & Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790
New York: Cornell University, 1998
Robert Olwell
“New Themes in the ‘Old Time’ Religion of the Civil War”
Timothy Wesley
“Religion and the American Civil War: A Historiography”
Bruce T. Gourley
Religion and the American Civil War
Oxford University Press, 1998
Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, Charles Reagan Wilson
“Religion in the Civil War: The Northern Perspective”
James Howell Moorhead
“Southern Baptists and Blacks, 1845-1895”
Roger Charles Richards
The Civil War as Theological Crisis
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006
Mark Noll
The Politics of Faith During the Civil War
Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2013
Timothy Webster
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
New York: Alfred A. Knopf
Drew Gilpin Faust
When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Slavery and the Causes of the Civil War
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002
John Patrick Daly