The war challenges Baptist higher education throughout the Confederacy. Already on the rise in the decade prior to the war and rivaling Methodist efforts, Baptists of the South, despite the national conflict, are yet evidencing some scholarly energy. This weeks Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph reports: Waco University, under the direction of the Baptists, opens its present…
Disappointment permeates the Confederacy following General Robert E. Lee’s unsuccessful foray northward. Now back in Virginia following the Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam), Reuben Allen Pierson of Mount Lebanon, Louisiana is serving as a sergeant in Company C, Ninth Louisiana Infantry in Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Mount Lebanon had been established in 1837 primarily by…
In the face of a bloody Civil War without visible end, Americans and Confederates at large are consumed with thoughts of Providence. From the earliest days of colonization, America has been a nation steeped in providential thought and language. The first Europeans to set foot in the new world were convinced that God’s hand was…