Six months into the war, some Northern Baptist clergy are enlisting in the Union army – not as chaplains, but rather as soldiers. Memories of an earlier generation of Baptists fighting in the Revolutionary War resonate among Civil War-era Baptists. Among today’s enlistees is Daniel Haskell Burdick, Illinois Baptist minister and farmer. Burdick’s service is…
The day is marked by two momentous events, one to the West and one to the East. Both impact the war. Westward, “workers of the Western Union Telegraph Company link the eastern and western telegraph networks of the nation at Salt Lake City, Utah, completing a transcontinental line that for the first time allows instantaneous…
Home front readers of the current Tennessee Baptist are provided with a humorous account of Confederate camp life, a story poking fun at what is otherwise a dreaded event: cholera. The following account is penned by an unnamed soldier: A correspondent writing from the regimental rendezvous, in Dallas county, Texas, gives the following spicy account…