Although little battlefield action takes place this month, public emotions are running high North and South while military leaders acquire equipment and plot strategy. The Connecticut Hartford Daily Courant runs a synopsis of a story from New York’s Auburn Advertiser concerning an incident in Georgia: The Auburn Advertiser states that a man named Dunning, who…
President Abraham Lincoln, a former Baptist who now embodies a more mystical view of God and, due to the unparalleled war the nation is now engaged in, is being transformed into the United States’ theologian-in-chief, issues his first proclamation for a national day of fasting: Whereas a joint Committee of both Houses of Congress has…
At first glance, today is a typical Sunday at the Union Baptist Church in Tennessee’s Stockton Valley in Loudon County. Inside the plain meeting house with perhaps one hundred or more persons present, preaching and singing fill the morning hours as the temperature rises this hot August day. The sounds wafting through the open windows…