From a Baptist family, George H. Marston of Appleton, Wisconsin is serving in Company E. 6th Wisconsin Infantry, a part of the Iron Brigade. His military service, not unlike many soldiers, includes brushes with death: he being commissioned second Lieutenant, being later made first lieutenant, with which rank he was mustered out of service, March…
Many white southerners, Baptist and otherwise, view the Civil War as the means of preserving the freedom of the white race, which they equate with God’s will for the world. The Richmond Daily Dispatch (Virginia) reports: Yesterday witnessed a nation at prayers. It was a day ever to be remembered. From one end of these…
Southern Baptists of Georgia are buttressed in their support of the Confederacy by a recent article written by Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptist’s Christian Index. Laying claim to the goodness of the war, Boykin declares the “object” of the war is “good – to save the soul and bless the world.” Likewise, the “end”…