Compared to the commotion in the North today, Christmas appears to have been a rather quiet day of celebration. From the nation’s capital, the normal sounds of city life are shattered by the firing of ordnance. The morning was “ushered in with a booming of cannon, 300 having been fired in honor of the capture…
Vassar Female College, a Baptist school in New York founded by the generosity of New York Baptist layman Matthew Vassar but not yet formally opened, is mired in controversy. President Milo P. Jewett shares Vassar’s vision, but has been increasingly fearful that Vassar’s nephews, also involved in the college’s affairs, are undermining the founder’s focus…
Southern Baptist newspapers during the war publish articles on a wide variety of subject matter, both religious and non-religious. And while many Baptists all too readily prefer to sort subjects into neat and clear sacred and secular categories, the war so intermingles the two that they often overlap or even fuse together in such a…