This month has been tension-filled in the Northern city of Cincinnati, Ohio. For weeks, the Confederate Army has lurked nearby in northern Kentucky, poking and prodding for a way to effectively attack the Queen City located across the Ohio River. Today, the latest Confederate offensive in the vicinity of Cincinnati takes place about 15 miles…
The war depletes many Southern Baptist churches of their menfolk. Church officers are not exempt from the male exodus, as exemplified by Jacob Eliot of Corsicana, Texas. Born in New York in 1803 and raised in Kentucky, at the age of 46 Eliot moved to Navarro County, Texas, with his wife, children, and grandchildren. Purchasing…
This week, the Union Soldiers’ Aid Society of Penacook, New Hampshire is formed in the town’s Baptist Church. According to the Preamble of the organization’s Constitution: Believing that it is our duty to do all in our power for the comfort of the soldiers, who are periling their lives in defense of our Government, we…