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Tag Archives: confederate camp life

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.
Civil War era whiskey label

Baptists and the American Civil War: March 12, 1862

While Southern Baptist army missionary A. E. Dickinson argues that Confederate Army camp life offers an opportunity to complete the Christian evangelization of Southern states, an anonymous Southern Baptist professor, utilizing flowery language not uncommon of the day, disagrees: An appeal to the soldiers of the Confederate States, by an old instructor, many of whose…

March 12, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: March 11, 1862

Confederate Army camp life perplexes Southern Baptists. While lamenting over the evils in the camps, they also relish the possibility of evangelizing the masses of southern men who are housed in cramped, crude quarters far away from home and hearth. Such an environment, some Southern Baptists contend, should make the South’s men more open to…

March 11, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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