We will look at three of these attitudes of Northern Protestants: To examine Protestant attitudes in the 1860s is thus to learn much about the popular mood and motivations of Northerners as their "boys" marched off to war.
Catholics and Jews provided notable (and heretofore insufficiently researched) support for the war but Protestants, given their numbers and position in American life, contributed religious or theological justifications of the war that had wider social and political impact. Of these groups, Protestants still enjoyed a significant numerical and cultural dominance in the 1860s.
Humanitas reaches down to the manacled slave being restrained by the alligator King Cotton, sovereign of the dark underworld of the Confederacy.Īfter Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter in April 1861, the vast majority of Northern religious bodieswith the exception of the historic "peace" churches which on principle adhered to pacifismardently supported the war for the Union.
Allegory predicting the triumph of the Union over the Confederacyįreedom, holding the American flag, is flanked by Christianity and Justice, and surrounded by historical figures including Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin.
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