Confederate States Army revival

Benjamin R. Lacy suggests that the revival began in the camps and hospitals around Richmond, Virginia.

[2] In March 1863, for example, a new chaplain arrived at the 41st Virginia Infantry regiment and found the beginnings of a revival.

[3] The revival was encouraged by Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee and, by mid-1863, it had spread to all the Confederate armies.

[4] Mark Summers argues, however, that Jackson and Lee were exceptional as far as enthusiasm among the officers went, and rather than a "top down" revival (the traditional Lost Cause of the Confederacy view), it was much more "bottom up", as thousands of religious tracts were distributed among the soldiers.

[7] Ben House suggests that the revivals provided "the spiritual resources that would be necessary to enable the South to survive defeat and Reconstruction with a strong Bible base still intact.