Pride in the Confederacy among white Southerners is evident in today’s South Carolina Confederate Baptist newspaper. When the second temple of Jerusalem was erected, the contrast of its limited dimensions with the amplitude and splendor of the first, affected the old men, who remembered it, and they wept. Intent on the material structure, they thought…
Today Frederic Bates of Pennsylvania writes a letter to U. S. President Abraham Lincoln: Titusville Pa Nov 10/63 Dear Sir On the 23d of July last I left Macon Geo. with my wife & child for Vermont My Native State Had been a resident of the South eight years. While travelling from Macon to Atlanta…
The editors of the Richmond Daily Dispatch today reprint a patriotic story from Charleston that recently took place in a Baptist church: The Charleston Mercury, reporting the proceedings of the Baptist Association of that city, says: A pleasant incident occurred, which it may be interesting to relate. In the collection taken up at the Baptist…