“And Americans continue to sing again and again Julie Ward Howe’s patriotic hymn 155 years since it was first published. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! God’s divine inspiration marches on.”
Reminds me of the comment made by the ranch hand in the movie Red River: “Why is it when you kill a man, you want to read the Lord into it?”
Or in this case, 600,000 men.
And yet the Republic survived, by the grace of of God. Indeed, He set Abraham Lincoln in authority over this nation during the Civil War for such a time as that. What could have been more God-inspired than Lincoln’s second inaugural address, which famously concluded:
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
“...where the grapes of wrath are stored.”
Would true Christians encourage and invoke carnage on their fellow man?
The Confederacy had its own long list of battle songs, including this one, their version of "Battle Cry of Freedom"
Here's a pretty good list of Dixie songs.
Note that many call on the Lord for His support.
Here's a Confederate song celebrating the Confederate Irish Brigade