Today a Northern Baptist missionary in France writes a letter to the American Baptist Home Missionary Society, referencing the war between the American states: First of all, will you allow me to say to you again how much your “life-and-death struggle” interests us. Yes, we remember that you are fighting the battle of freedom for…
Richmond’s Daily Dispatch today carries a story about the growing revival in Confederate army camps in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia. Baptists and others are reaping the benefits of the spirit’s movement. John L. Burrows is the pastor of Richmond’s prominent First Baptist Church. In addition to pastoring, during the war Burrows ministers diligently to Virginia’s…
Each and every day, more Baptist men join the ranks of the Union and Confederate armies. Typically young men, they go to war for their respective countries for a number of reasons, including (respectfully) abolitionist and pro-slavery views, love for country, to be with comrades, a search for adventure, and an opportunity (for poor folk)…