Following is a partial bibliography of works related to, or relevant to, the topic of Baptists and the Civil War. A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2009 Eugene D. Genovese A Necessary Evil?: Slavery and the Debate Over the…
In a post-Gettysburg world, some Southern Baptist leaders begin considering the possibility that the South may lose the war. It is an unpleasant and distasteful thought, and such acknowledgments are tentative and limited. An editorial in today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder takes a peek at what a Confederate loss may mean. As Southern Baptists…
Today, a Sunday, is a formal day of fasting and prayer in the Confederacy, following the devastating losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg of the previous month. In Alabama, Baptist minister Isaac T. Tichenor–earlier in the year returned from a stint serving as a chaplain and missionary to the Confederate army and now pastoring the First…