As the war grinds ever on, soldier desertions increasingly become a problem for the Confederate Army. Reasons for desertion include, among others, disillusionment among common men who believe they are fighting on behalf of large slave owners; homesickness; pressure from wives and other family members who are suffering on the Southern home front; and lack…
Some Northern Baptist families contribute multiple men to the war effort of the United States of America. Such is the case with the Robison family of Illinois. One of four brothers who serve in the Union Army, Thomas L. Robison, a farmer’s son, enlisted on November 7, 1861 in the Company K, Fifty-sixth Regiment, Illinois…
A new chapter in Baptist life has been unfolding this month as freedmen on St. Helena Island off the coast of South Carolina, under the protection and with the assistance of the United States Army, form an autonomous Baptist congregation and establish a Baptist-related school, the Penn School. The school teaches reading, writing, agricultural and…