The war, well into its third year, is a canvas upon which countless human stories unfold. Tragedy is often the theme of such stories, yet spiritual victories and simple stories of human inspiration are also splayed across the canvas of war. Baptist newspapers North and South often carry short items of interest, little stories that…
Northern-born Southerner Jacob Eliot (1803-1870) of Corsicana, Texas is a successful attorney, a slaveholder, and the church clerk of the Corsicana Baptist Church. Born in New York in 1803 and raised in Kentucky, Eliot at the age of 46 had moved to Navarro County, Texas, with his wife, children, and grandchildren. Purchasing 3,605 acres, Eliot…
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s program of Southern reconstruction occupies much of his time and thought. Announced on December 8, the now six-week-old effort has proven more successful than many Northerners had hoped, while causing consternation among the political and military leaders of a fraying Confederacy. At the heart of reconstruction is the eradication of slavery…