Today, a father and son – both Baptists – enlist in Company B, Thirty-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Marching off to war together, Edward T. Durant (born 1819) and son William E. (born 1843) serve the United States in its time of greatest need. Like many other soldiers, they are common folk: Edward is a farmer-turned-carpenter,…
Wrapping up their three-day meeting at the Baptist church in Flagspring, Kentucky’s Campbell County Association of Baptists issues a circular letter to be distributed to member congregations. As voiced in the circular letter, the subject of the war is heavy on the hearts of the delegates as they lament the disunion of the nation. Kentucky’s…
“These days are fraught with many blessings,” Julia Stanford, a teacher in Forsyth, Georgia comments this week. “Would that we had heart to appreciate them – Truly the lines have fallen in pleasant places. God’s ways are far above our poor ways.” Against the backdrop of distant battlefields and a cloudy, rainy week at home,…