Isaac Gray Woolsey–physician, surgeon, and Baptist layman–has been serving as a quartermaster in the Confederate Army. Today, he resigns that position and begins organizing Company C, Eighth Tennessee Confederate cavalry. The regiment is soon assigned to Gen. N.B. Forrest’s division. As his obituary recounts: With his command he participated in all the battles in which…
Today the United States and Confederate armies clash in Culpeper County, Virginia. In the early years of the American nation, this area was Baptist giant John Leland’s stomping grounds. In those days, Leland preached religious liberty for all and church state separation. Now, many Southern Baptists still cling to “religious liberty” language yet consider the…
A letter from an anonymous North Carolina Confederate soldier is published in today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch, lamenting the Confederate government not protecting his state’s citizens from marauding federal troops. Thinking it may be interesting to the many readers of your excellent paper and perhaps cause our Government to turn a listening ear to the plaintive…