Today in the United States elections are held for several governorships as well as the U.S. House and one-third of the Senate. Southern politicians in Richmond hope that peace candidates will make gains, but their hopes are to no avail as Republicans increase their strength in statehouses and in Washington. U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s chances…
Amidst the restlessness found throughout the Confederacy, Baptists join other white Southerners in lamenting the fortunes of their nation and wondering why God has allowed such prolonged catastrophe to take place. In Georgia’s Bulloch County, the Lower Canoochee Baptist Association is convened. As in other associational gatherings in the South this month, the war is…
This month many Baptist churches and associational assemblies throughout the South hold special prayer meetings for the Confederacy. Dark are the clouds descending over the nation, hiding the face of God from his people. In Tennessee near Knoxville, the Gallaher Baptist Church prays and fasts, calling on God to bring peace to the land. In…