The lead article in today’s Christian Index is a commentary by Georgia Baptist minister E. R. Carswell, a pastor in Waynesboro, Georgia. He thus offers his thoughts regarding “The War,” replete with a sober assessment of the southern economy, the greed of planters, and recent battlefield reversals — as well as issuing a stirring call…
In these early months of 1862, Confederate soldiers and other observers of Confederate army camp life (including chaplains, missionaries and local citizens) routinely write letters for publication in Southern Baptist news publications. There is typically a lag time of one to three weeks (or more) between the writing of the letters and publication in newspapers.…
While Sunday church services are underway throughout the Confederacy, the fortunes of the new nation take yet another turn for the worse. Confederate Major General Leonidas K. Polk, an ordained bishop in the Episcopal Church, forsakes his vision of Kentucky as a line of defense against Northern encroachment. Having earlier occupied portions of Kentucky wihtout…