Southern Baptist army missionary A. E. Dickinson today writes of revivals in Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. I have within a few days received the most cheering accounts from the Army of Northern Virginia. In almost every regiment protracted meetings are in progress, and souls are being born into the kingdom.…
The sins of Confederate soldiers are an oft-discussed topic in the North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder, contrasted alongside a growing body of eyewitness accounts of revivals in the camps. Today’s edition of the newspaper offers two articles about army camp life. The first is an account of an encounter between an anonymous chaplain and card-playing…
Today is the final day of this year’s meeting of the Georgia Baptist Convention. The gathering of white Southern Baptists has thus far focused heavily on task of attending to the spiritual needs of Confederate soldiers, whether through providing Christian literature or supporting (or serving as) army chaplains or missionaries. In addition, delegates have discussed…