This week’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder publishes a letter written by a North Carolina soldier stationed in Savannah, Georgia, in defense of the southern coastline. The anonymous soldier is confident of southern victory, placing the Union blockade of the Confederate coast in as good light as possible. A native of N.C. spending the winter here,…
The Baptists of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are doing their part to support the Union cause. As reported by today’s Philadelphia Inquirer: COL. GREGORY’S REGIMENT of Ninety-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, now at Camp Chase, on the Darby road, have received orders to march, and will strike tents to-day, and leave for Washington this afternoon. The officers and men…
An unfolding battle in eastern Kentucky commands the attention of many Baptists south and north. Baptists fight on both sides of the conflict, while Baptists on the eastern Kentucky home-front await with anxiety-tinged anticipation and prayer. The Battle of Mill Springs marks the high water mark of a Confederate offensive campaign in a hotly-contested region.…