Providence and the Southern Campaign

If you have attended any of my lectures or classes in history at the American History Guild, you may have noticed my use of the word “providence” from time to time (okay, frequently). It refers, in short, to the recognition that God not only created the world and all that is in it, but He governs it as well, through various means. It is the idea that God superintends the details of history. When George Washington observed that he had been providentially spared, though shot at many …