Today’s edition of the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald continues efforts to reconstruct the Old Confederacy as a righteous slave regime that was overwhelmed by the military might of an ungodly Northern people. Upset that Missouri is requiring all ministers to sign an oath of allegiance to the United States, Southern Baptists lament that the mandate…
David L. Bryant, born 1843 in Jackson, Pennsylvania, was one of three brothers to fight in the Civil War. One brother died and two survived, including David. Enlisting in September 1862, David’s living through the war defied the odds, as he fought in roughly 100 battles, including at Seven Pines, Murfreesboro and Petersburg. A Baptist…
A Canadian by birth (1848), Philip S. Moxom grew up in Illinois and as a 14-yeard old marched off to fight for his new country as an attendant, or “boy,” to Captain Bewley of the 78th Illinois Regiment. On October 3, 1863, a then 15-year old Moxom enlisted as a soldier in the 17th Illinois…