Today Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Thomas Hill Watts, a prominent Baptist layman in the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, Alabama, to the position of attorney general in his cabinet. Unlike the United States, the Confederate States of America never establishes a Supreme Court. In the absence of such a national judicial body, the attorney…
Baptists of the South are conflicted about their own faith heritage of church state separation. They have enthusiastically embraced a Confederate Constitution that, much unlike the secular United States Constitution, invokes “the favor and guidance of Almighty God” upon the Confederate States of America. At the same time, Southern Baptist leaders have equated the Confederacy…
The Battle of Shiloh continues today, with momentum shifting to the Union and resulting in a victory for the United States. Dr. Nathaniel Alexander “Alex” Morgan (1823 – 1907), a Louisiana physician and farmer, fights in the 19th Louisiana Infantry. In a letter to his wife Fanny following the battle, he describes the battlefield action…