Today Union and Confederate forces clash in northern Arkansas in the Battle of Pea Ridge (or Elkhorn Tavern). In a battle for control of the border state of Missouri, Confederate Gen. Earl Van Dorn’s army attacks an encroaching Union army led by Gen. Samuel R. Curtis. Confederate forces temporarily gain the upper hand today, but divided…
Baptists of the South routinely criticize the evilness of Confederate Army camp life. Gambling, alcohol, sabbath-breaking and other vices increasingly come under withering condemnation. This week, the Southern Army of the Potomac, under the command of Brig. Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard, is scrutinized in the Baptist press. The date of this first-hand account of…
A pseudonymous Baptist writer of the South offers his perspective of the Church, the Confederacy and the war in this week’s Baptist press: Money! Money! Money! is all the cry.–Money for the soldiers–money for their dependent families–money for war taxes–and yet no cotton selling–or if selling, not at remunerative prices. Never so much money demanded…