Southern Baptist newspapers frequently appeal to Confederate soldiers to place their faith in God and hope in the afterlife, appropriating images of mothers, wives and sisters. The following appeal in circulation this week is one example: Soldier of the Southern Confederacy! –To you I would fain speak a few words, and though others wield the…
Unbeknownst to Union Maj. General George B. McClellan, today his months-long offensive against Richmond moves into its final phase. The beginning of the end takes the form of a minor Union offensive action. On the outskirts of Richmond and separated by a strip of forest some 1200 yards wide, Union and Confederate forces since the…
By proclamation of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, many Baptists and other Christians today (a Friday) gather in their houses of worship to offer special prayer for the Confederacy, a nation now reeling from Union advances in Virginia and the deep South. Davis’s proclamation is as follows: To the People of the Confederate States of America:…