Today’s North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder demonstrates solidarity with other white Southern Christians in reprinting a Confederate Presbyterian’s helpful suggestion for the Confederate States of America: “Let our Confederacy Call upon God.” We are in the very crisis of the war. The present campaign seems to be ours, but the enemy is raising a new…
This week, against Southern jubilation over the victory in the Second Battle of Bull Run, Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptist’s Christian Index, offers a summation of the second annual session of the Confederate Congress, currently in the third week (the session will not conclude until October) in Richmond, the nation’s capital. Many important bills…
Today South Carolina Baptist minister William L. Curry, born in 1836, is appointed as the chaplain of 50th Georgia Regiment. A graduate of Furman University and with degrees from the Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (all in South Carolina), Curry is well educated. Ordained in 1860, he sought appointment as a…