Talks of revivals within the Confederate Army increasingly occupy space in Baptist newspapers of the South. The influence and work of faithful chaplains is said to be aiding the spread of revival fires. Or is this so? Alex Morgan, the Assistant Surgeon of the First Georgia Regiment, currently stationed at Camp Cumming near Mobile, Alabama,…
Thomas E. Bramlette (1817-1875) is a Baptist layman, lawyer and state politician in this home state of Kentucky. Like many Kentuckians, he is a Union man. Earlier in the war he was commissioned as a colonel and raised the Third Kentucky Infantry Regiment. Bramlette has recently resigned his military position and today he becomes the…
Revivals in the Confederate army camps and doctrinal debate among Baptists of the North offer two glimpses into Baptist life today. Today’s edition of Virginia Baptists’ Religious Herald reports that revival meetings within Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s army have been going on for “fifty-five consecutive days and nights without regard to weather or other…