On the heels of the Confederate defeat in the Chattanooga Campaign, Confederate Lieutenant General James Longstreet today attempts to break through federal lines surrounding the Union-occupied city of Knoxville and under the command of Major General Ambrose Burnside. The Battle of Fort Sanders, however, proves to be one of the quickest and most lopsided battles…
News of the revivals among Baptists of the South are not confined to Baptist newspapers only. The nightly meetings at two of Richmond’s Baptist congregations merit mention this week in the Richmond Daily Dispatch: Revival meetings among Baptists are attracting sizable numbers of attendees. A protracted Meeting is being held every night in the Second…
North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder editor J. D. Hufham offers his current, and rather sober, assessment of the war effort as news of Confederate victory in the Battle of Chancellorsville filters southward. The next few weeks or months will be productive of results of vast moment to the people of this nation. The enemy seem…