The war challenges Baptist higher education throughout the Confederacy. Already on the rise in the decade prior to the war and rivaling Methodist efforts, Baptists of the South, despite the national conflict, are yet evidencing some scholarly energy. This weeks Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph reports: Waco University, under the direction of the Baptists, opens its present…
As the days turn colder, southern concern for soldiers’ health grows. Soldiers are anxious about illness in their midst, while family and friends on the home front fret about disease and illness among loved one. As Confederate soldiers serve far from homes and hearths and suffer travails, patriotic appeals for assistance from residents in the…
Throughout the Confederacy, dozens if not hundreds of Baptist associations convene this month. At each meeting, the war is a popular topic of conversation, whether informally or formally. In Texas today, the Waco Baptist Association, meeting in Marlin, hears a report on home missions: “In view of the condition of the country, engaged as we…