Many Southern Baptist men are now soldiering for the Confederacy. Army life is far from easy: danger, hunger, illness, exposure to the elements, and death are all constant worries, although secondary–in the minds of preachers–to the ever-present specter of sin. Most Baptist churches in the South never refer, in their church records, to their soldiers…
In order for God to bestow victory upon His chosen Confederacy, white southerners have a duty to perform, a duty that includes refraining from criticism of the South’s political and military leaders, according to J.D. Hufham, the editor of North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder. An esteemed brother, writing on business from a point which is…
Robert Smalls, an African Baptist from South Carolina who recently obtained his freedom from slavery by seizing the Confederate steamer Planter and making a daring escape through Confederate defenses at Charleston, has since provided valuable information to the United States Navy. Acting on Smalls’ knowledge of Confederate defenses of South Carolina’s coast, the Union Navy…