While further north winter weather precludes new battles, the struggle for control of the southern Atlantic coastline continues. Union forces, having successfully seized control of shipping lanes and key islands off the South Carolina coast earlier this month, today, under the direction of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, seize control of Tybee Island off the…
War-time excitement does not prevent many white Baptists of the South from engaging in ongoing religious debates whose origins predate the war. One ongoing Baptist debate is over the issue of Landmarkism, a formal movement with origins in the early 1850s and expressing the belief that Baptist are the only true Christians, or said another…
While recent state Baptist meetings South and North have been marked with excitement about the war, emotions in Baptist homes often evidence less exuberance and more concern. Many southern and northern families, already anxious regarding loved ones serving on distant battlefields, are beginning to realize the war will not end soon. Depression and mental illnesses,…