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Wounded Confederate Soldiers

Baptists and the American Civil War: April 6, 1863

Southern Baptists on the home front are fed a steady diet of depressing news from Confederate Army camps. The bearers of the bad news in the Southern Baptist press are soldiers, army chaplains, army missionaries, army evangelists and news correspondents. In addition to death and illness, lamentations regarding army camps decry the sin and decadence,…

April 6, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Confederate Camp

Baptists and the American Civil War: April 2, 1863

Baptist leaders and churches of the Confederacy express little to no remorse over church members killing their Northern brethren in the fight to maintain African slavery. Nor do most doubt that slavery is the lot of the black race. Personal immorality of church members serving in the Confederate Army, however, is another matter altogether. The…

April 2, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: February 18, 1863

From North Carolina’s 56th Regiment, a Baptist Confederate soldier writes of his unit’s recent movements and the challenges of reaching his fellow soldiers for Christ. His letter is published in today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder. Dear Bro. Hufham:–Though I am unaccustomed to writing for publication, I will solicit a small space in your columns, believing…

February 18, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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