Christian History editors asked Dr. Charles Reagan Wilson to recommend books that creatively explore Christianity during the Civil War era. Here's his list.

They often risked floggings to worship God.

Selections from sermons during the Civil War era. From God Ordained This War: Sermons on the Sectional Crisis, 1830–1865 edited by David B. Chesebrough (University of South Carolina press, 1991). Used by permission.

Where was God in this brutal national war? An unbaptized non-churchgoer came up with a profound answer.

These Christian generals helped wage the Civil War, and their faith affected how they did it.

At first, most Civil War soldiers cared little for religion. But as the bloody war dragged on, hundreds of thousands converted to Christ.

When slavery divided America's churches, what could hold the nation together?

Leading people in religion and politics during the Civil War era

Key reasons advanced by southern church leaders

This feisty Puritan spent his life quieting the controversies he started.