"Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot cure": Northern civilian perspectives on death and eternity during the Civil War.(SADNESS AND SOCIETY)(Essay)

Journal of Social History | June 22, 2008| | Copyright

Although the death angel severely afflicted the Alfords of Daviess County in southwestern Indiana during the Civil War, it could not have chosen a family as well-grounded in their religious beliefs or as confident in their future reunion beyond the grave. In the mid-1840s, Franklin Alford had helped found the Christian Church in the town of Alfordsville, and he and his wife Mary devotedly reared their seven children in the faith. They also instilled an intense patriotism in their sons, and the oldest, twenty-two year-old Warren, enlisted with the 14th Indiana in the spring of ...

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