Clashes intensify along the lower Mississippi River as U.S. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant continues his relentless pursuit of capturing the strategic river city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The key city of Jackson, Mississippi, having been occupied by Union troops for two days, is by now mostly destroyed as Grant’s army moves out of the city this…
Following the directives of the delegates to this month’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, Southern Baptists this month establish their first Sunday School Board at Greenville, South Carolina. It is a bold move at a time when the war has obliterated Southern Baptist mission efforts apart from work among Confederate soldiers. The production of literature,…
Should Southern Baptists (and Confederate Christians at large) hate their brethren in the North? An editorial in this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder seeks to answer this question. The Marquis of Hartington, who visited the South some months ago, said, in a speech delivered since his return to England, that the feeling by which…