Fredericksburg, a Virgina city on the banks of the Rappahannock River, has served as a crossroads for both Confederate and Union armies. Confederate forces controlled the city early in the war, only to give way to Union forces in the spring and summer of 1862. The four months of Union occupation were tenuous, leading federal…
War pressures are doing strange things to some Baptists of the South. Abandoning any pretext of being faithful to the Baptist heritage of religious liberty for all, two editorials in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index insist that the Confederate government govern by biblical laws regarding the Sabbath. One editorial goes so far as to…
Southern hand-wringing over July’s losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg continues. One common response by Baptist leaders of the South is to search for the sins of the Confederacy that have led to God’s disfavor upon his chosen nation. There is, however, no consensus on what may be the primary sin of the Confederate nation, a…