While women in the North have for decades been active in the abolitionist movement and generally have some voice in social reforms, white Southern women live in a male-dominated society where proper gender roles are reinforced by a literal reading of the Bible. Although the war-time absence of many Southern men from home and church…
Sarah Christie Stevens, 18 years of age, is a student at Wisconsin Female College in Fox Lake. She has a drive “to do great good in the world,” and her father and soldier brothers are financing (the latter from their United States Army pay) her education in the belief that she will fulfill her wishes.…
Today the Columbus Baptist Association of Georgia assembles at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Talbot County for the first day of a three-day meeting. The war permeates the sessions and formal discussions that take place throughout the associational meeting. Missions and Sunday Schools are suffering, delegates note, while some pulpits are no longer regularly…