Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, yet headquartered in Chattanooga, is making final preparations for the beginning of his spring campaign against Atlanta. Today he sends a coded telegram ordering the requisition and deployment of a manned gun-boat to “patrol the river below Bridgeport to Decatur to cover McPherson’s movements.” General James B. McPherson commands the…
The war may be ever on the minds of the South’s Baptists, but that is no excuse to shirk Christian duty or backslide in one’s faith, as an editorial by editor J. D. Hufham in this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder reminds readers. Hufham’s reasoning is not uncommon during the war years. While demanding…
North Carolina Biblical Recorder editor J. D. Hufham today offers a commentary on sin in the Confederacy. A short time since we noticed a gentleman indulging in practices which in other days, he would severely and justly have censured in another. He stood high in the estimation of his brethren, for the consistency and apparent…