Faith Of Our Fathers Books in Order

Nancy Campbell Allen’s Faith of Our Fathers follows the Birmingham family through the American Civil War. Relatives and loved ones find themselves divided between North and South, making national conflict a deeply personal matter. The four books combine historical family drama, romance and an inspirational perspective. The story moves beyond a single battlefield to consider soldiers, reporters and people at home, while connections to the Utah Territory add another view of a country struggling over belonging and political authority.

A House Divided begins as the nation approaches war and disagreements threaten relationships that once seemed secure. The family-saga structure lets the conflict reach several generations rather than remaining the experience of one central soldier. Blood ties do not guarantee shared loyalties, and private affection cannot keep political divisions outside the home. The opening establishes a world in which people must decide what they believe while facing the possibility that someone they love will stand on the other side. Faith offers a framework for those decisions without removing their cost.

War makes the distance between conviction and consequence impossible to ignore.

To Make Men Free continues the Birmingham story as fighting deepens. Reporter Anne Birmingham disguises herself as a soldier to discover the realities of war, placing her work and identity at risk together. Emily faces decisions connected to the freedom of people she cares about, while family members have to weigh their own desires against larger responsibilities. The narrative also looks west, where the Utah Territory’s hopes for statehood meet resistance. These different strands give the series a wider setting than the military campaigns alone, showing how conflict affects people whose lives are not confined to the front.

In Through the Perilous Fight, cousins Ben and Luke Birmingham are sent by the Union army to New York during draft unrest. The city introduces another form of danger, where violence on crowded streets can be as threatening as battle. Luke’s younger brother Robert is also drawn into the war, while Anne’s concern for a prisoner gives her a personal reason to attempt a rescue. The sequence concludes with One Nation Under God. The continuing family connections allow each new crisis to carry the weight of relationships established in the earlier books.

Read A House Divided, To Make Men Free, Through the Perilous Fight and One Nation Under God in order to follow the family through the conflict. Readers can expect historical fiction with an explicit Latter-day Saint outlook, multiple viewpoints and strong attention to love and loyalty under pressure. The appeal lies in seeing the war through relatives whose obligations do not fit neatly within one political position. The series asks how a family can remain connected when the nation around it is breaking apart and the decisions required for survival keep testing that connection.