This week’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder reports on a discussion of an unusual topic at the recent “Ministers and Deasons’ Meeting” of the state’s Central Baptist Association: extortion. Some white Christians of the Confederacy, in seeking to determine why God has not yet given victory to his chosen nation and instead is allowing the war…
As Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s invasion of Maryland continues — albeit with spirited opposition from Union General George B. McClellan and invoking the anger of many Marylanders — U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, from the White House, hopes for the best. Lincoln, however, is not inactive as he waits for encouraging news from Maryland. For…
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia have been marching through Maryland for ten days, in the first invasion of the North by the South. Yesterday, however, an errant copy of Lee’s battle plans had fallen into Union hands. Union General George B. McClellan, previously too cautious to engage Lee, now…