Notes:
Religion also helped to form other ideologies. For women, religion helped them format their ideology on war. Two primary documents that I studied discussed this. Nancy Emerson of Augusta County, Virginia found much faith and promise in religion during the Civil War. Excerpts from Emerson's diary from 1862-1863 can be found in the Valley of the Shadow web-site. She supports the South's war effort by saying that God supports it. She feels that God is on the South's side and basically says that the North will pay for their sins. Ellen Jane Buckwalter Mumma, on the other hand, used her religion to form an ideology against war. In her memoirs, she discussed how being a member of a "peace" church and a conscientious objector during World War II affected her and her church family.