Today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder publishes a letter from L. C. Vass, Secretary of the Chaplain’s Association of the Army of Northern Virginia. The letter speaks to commonalities found between the various Protestant denominations in terms of ministering to Confederate soldiers, expressing hope that Baptists will work closely with the army-based organization. The church…
News from Gettysburg and Vicksburg has spread throughout the South, although thanks to the inefficiencies and shortcomings of communication, the facts are frequently interspersed with supposition and rumors. While yet uncertain of many details about Gettysburg, this week North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder editor J. D. Hufham breaks the sobering news of Confederate losses at…
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, in the midst of invading the North with his Army of Northern Virginia, today confers with Gen. A. P. Hill on the town square of Chambersburg, Virginia. The U.S. government and army seem hapless to stop the invasion. Meanwhile, Confederate naval vessels are raiding far northward. Having captured a Maine…