Gettysburg has a long reach upon the South. Devastating was the battlefield defeat two months ago, while the emotional loss is lived again and again as news of the deaths of soldier sons, husbands and fathers daily afflicts distraught families. Many of the deceased Confederate soldiers from the Battle of Gettysburg were Baptists. In today’s…
Emily Quiner, a nurse in a Union hospital in Memphis returns to her home in Madison, Wisconsin, and worships in her home church this morning. Prior to the war Quiner was a school teacher in Madison and a member of the Janesville Baptist Church. For the past two months, however, she has been serving as…
This month the members of Meadow Branch Baptist Church in North Carolina are presented with a certificate of baptism signed by Confederate chaplain (or perhaps army missionary) A. L. Stowe and indicating that three of the church’s soldier sons had been immersed and desired church membership. Soldiers William H. Trull, Thomas S. Trull and A.…