The editor of North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder, J. D. Hufham, this week offers a few remarks about the spiritual challenges of army camp life and then refers to a news item concerning religion among Confederate soldiers. We are pleased to learn, from various quarters, that a deep religious feeling prevails among many of our…
In the wake of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, and from the context of a firm commitment to God’s willing of the enslavement of the African race, Baptists in the Confederacy continue searching for some other acceptable reason for God not yet leading His chosen nation to victory over the evil United…
Today the First Kansas Colored Infantry, the first African Americans recruited in the Northern states for service in the Civil War, experience their first battlefield engagement. At Island Mound in Missouri’s Bates Country, a detachment of some 225 Kansas African American soldiers clash with five hundred Confederates. Although ten Kansas soldiers are killed and twelve…