Amidst the tumult of war, humor occasionally makes an appearance in the Baptist press of the South. Such is the case in regards to a short piece published in this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder. A man who had recently been elected a Major of the Militia, and who was not overburdened with brains,…
Southern states are astir, forming militia regiments and seeking funding. Samuel Boykin, the editor of Georgia’s Baptist newspaper, The Christian Index, calls for “every freeman of Georgia” to “prepare to discharge his duty manfully.” Delegates to the Georgia Baptist Convention, convening today in Athens, talk excitedly about their new nation and the battlefield clashes certain…
Three days after the Confederacy fires upon Union forces at Fort Sumter, U. S. Abraham Lincoln issues a proclamation against the Confederate States of America, calling for the raising of a United States militia to respond to the hostile actions of the CSA: Whereas the laws of the United States have been for some time…