Murfressboro, Tennesee, safely in Union hands, has become a magnet for escaped slaves, Confederate deserters and poor white families displaced from their rural homes. In ever greater numbers, the refugees set up camp in and around the city. Many of the poor white refugees take up residence in the yard of the city’s Baptist church,…
Far away from the battlefields and the contraband camps in which many New Yorkers serve the cause of freedom for all, open space in New York City is becoming all the more rare. The growth in the density of New York City is now impacting the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, a congregation seeking to make…
What do active Christian men serving in the Confederate Army think of their lives and Christian service while in the ranks? This week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder publishes a letter from an anonymous soldier which offers at least one soldier’s devotional thoughts during winter camp. Some time since a terrible storm swept over the…