This month Osgood Church Wheeler is appointed secretary and manager of the United States Sanitary Commission for the Pacific Coast. He joins many other Northern Baptist ministers serving in U.S. agencies that assist freedmen and soldiers. A native of Wolcott (Butler), Wayne County, New York, Wheeler was born in 1816 and grew up in modest…
Born in Clarion County, Pennsylvania on September 26, 1832, Joanna P. Moore was raised by Episcopalian and Presbyterian parents. During a revival meeting in 1851, however, she joined a Baptist church. Attending Female Seminary in Illinois earlier this year, she learned of the needs among a colony of freed women and children on Union-controlled Island…
Today’s edition of the New York Times publishes a letter (originally published in the Richmond Whig) from a Confederate chaplain that discusses the religious landscape within the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. The chaplain is not a Baptist, but offers observations of Baptist chaplains. The following is a copy of a letter from Rev. D.…