Touring Confederate camps in Virginia, former Georgia Baptist Christian Index editor Joseph Walker offers his observations regarding revival among the soldiers, as related in this week’s Index. “The influence of Christianity in the army has been marked,” Walker summarizes, “and it still pervades large masses of the Confederate troops in different localities from Petersburg to…
Georgia’s governor Joseph Brown, a Southern Baptist, remains a vocal critic of the Confederate government’s conscription law. Brown stands out among Confederate state governors as the strongest advocate of states’ rights within the Confederacy. The governor’s concern is that his state is being forced to contribute soldiers to the national Confederate effort without receiving enough…
The deaths of Baptist Confederate soldiers now likely number in the thousands, whether from wounds or sickness. With increasing frequency, obituaries are published in Southern Baptist newspapers, often months after the death occurs, such as the following obituary in today’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index. Died in the army of the Confederate States, at Lynchburg with…