Within the past ten days, Columbia, SC, Charleston, SC and Wilmington, NC have all fallen to Federal forces. The one remaining major Confederate city in the main theater of war is Richmond, VA, the Confederate capital. While national and state civil leaders, in addition to many white religious leaders, remain ideologically defiant in the defense…
In tandem with the plunging prospects of the Confederate States of America are Southern whites’ escalating condemnations of the evil, abolitionist United States. To be certain, Southern whites even prior to the war pinned the blame for secession on Northern abolitionists while proudly proclaiming the South’s determination to fight with all their might for the…
The North Carolina Baptist Convention assembles at the First Baptist Church of Raleigh and passes a resolution on “the State of the Country.” The resolution is lengthy, offering commentary on the United States, Confederate States and the war, but especially dwelling upon the revivals within the Confederate Army. The close of another Conventional year finds…