Today is the best day of the war thus far for the United States of America, as General Ulysses S. Grant captures the Confederate’s Fort Donelson on Tennessee’s Cumberland River, following a four day campaign. After the capture of Fort Henry, ten miles to the west and ten days earlier, Grant’s army had marched to…
Newlyweds Anderson and Dora Richards Miller today arrive in Arkansas, seeking to escape the travails of war. Having moved from New Orleans, Arkansas is a new experience for Dora. Perhaps an Episcopalian (the church in which the couple was married), Dora in her diary describes the day and days following, including observations of religious life…
In much public Baptist discourse in the South, the biblical language of God’s will and Kingdom is superimposed upon the Confederate States of America — literally. Georgia Baptist’s Christian Index editor Samuel Boykin this week, generously intermingling the cause of Christ and Confederate patriotism, offers a vivid example of such dual imagery: Hark! The dread…