"God Alone Knows Which Was Right": The Blue and Gray Terrill Family of Virginia in the Civil War

by Armstrong, Richard L.

• ISBN13: 9780786446223
• ISBN10: 0786446226
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-01
• Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc Pub

Summary

According to legend, William H. Terrill had the phrase God Alone Knows Which Was Right inscribed on a monument to honor two of his fallen sons, generals who fought on opposite sides during the Civil War. This history uses excerpts from family letters and official military records to depict both a family and a nation divided.

Author Biography

Richard L. Armstrong is the past president of the Bath County Historical Society and head of the local committee for Bath County in the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War. The author of seven other books on Virginia in the Civil War, he lives in Hot Springs, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Military Terminology	p. 3
Operation of a Light Battery	p. 4
Terrill Family Tree	p. 8
	p. 9
	p. 36
	p. 47
	p. 85
	p. 172
Philip Mallory Terrill	p. 218
Address at the Burial of Brig, Gen. William R. Terrill	p. 241
Terrill Burial Monument Myth	p. 245
Chapter Notes	p. 249
Bibliography	p. 271
Index	p. 283
Tables, Maps, and Figures	p. xiii
Note on Romanization and Measurements	p. xv
Introduction: Religion, Modernity, Nationalism	p. 1
Of Legislation and Ling
Inventing Religion	p. 27
Temples and the Redefinition of Public Life	p. 67
Material Motives
Jiangsu Temples as Target and Tactic	p. 111
Idealized Communities and the Religious Remainder	p. 150
Transactional Modernity
Embodying Superstition	p. 191
Affective Regimes	p. 227
Conclusion: Superstition's Legacy	p. 279
Appendix
Three Major KMT Laws on Temples	p. 295
Reference Matter
Notes	p. 303
Works Cited	p. 385
Index	p. 429
Introduction	p. ix
The Story of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God	p. 1
A Theological Primer	p. 17
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God	p. 33
Companion Texts by Edwards	p. 51
Of Being (1721)	p. 52
The Mind (1723)	p. 54
The "Spider Letter" (1723)	p. 56
The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners (1735)	p. 62
An Account of the Late Wonderful Work of God (1735)	p. 66
Personal Narrative (1740)	p. 75
Letter to Deborah Hatheway, a Young Convert (1741)	p. 86
Letters to His Children	p. 91
To Mary Edwards (1749)	p. 92
To Timothy Edwards (1753)	p. 94
Some Thoughts Concerning the Revival in New England (1743)	p. 96
Letter to Lady Mary Pepperrell (1751)	p. 102
Original Sin (1758)	p. 105
Contemporary Documents	p. 111
The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry (1740)	p. 112
Letter from a Visitor to Suffield, Connecticut (1741)	p. 118
Eyewitness Account of the Preaching of Sinners (1741)	p. 122
Pastoral Letter About the Preaching of Sinners (1741)	p. 125
The Late Religious Commotions in New England Considered (1743)	p. 127
Interpretations	p. 131
A Complete History of Connecticut (1818)	p. 132
The Great Awakening (1842)	p. 135
The Minister's Wooing (1859)	p. 138
Sr., Reflects on Edwards (1880)	p. 142
The Tear-Stained Pages of Sinners (1897)	p. 146
Reads Edwards on the Will (1902)	p. 147
On His Wife's Ancestor Jonathan Edwards (1916)	p. 149
On the Tragedy of Edwards (1927)	p. 151
"Mr. Edwards and the Spider" (1946)	p. 155
"The Artistry of Jonathan Edwards" (1949)	p. 157
Creates an Edwards for the Twentieth Century (1949)	p. 161
Re-Preaches Sinners (1949)	p. 165
"The Anachronism of Jonathan Edwards" (1958)	p. 169
Two Views of the Toronto Blessing and Edwards's Place in the Twenty-first Century	p. 172
Catch the Fire (1994)	p. 173
Counterfeit Revival (1997)	p. 176
"Credo" (2008)	p. 180
Chronology of Edwards's Life	p. 183
Glossary	p. 185
Resources for Teaching	p. 191
Suggested Reading	p. 195
Original Sources for Texts	p. 199
Illustration Credits	p. 203
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