Today may be much like many another day in camp as soldiers mill around, settle into place, or follow orders from an officer. Some come, some go, some cook, some wash, some write letters. Some, like 23-year-old William Ira Ariail of Georgia, die without fanfare and without a grasp of what the war they had…
This month a scholar-in-the-making, whose recent appointment as a Southern Baptist missionary to Japan has been rescinded by war-related financial difficulties, joins Virginia’s Norfolk Light Artillery Blues. The new enrollee has an impressive pedigree: he is a graduate of the Norfolk Academy (a military school) and the University of Virginia, a student of John A.…
Southern Baptist efforts to supply religious reading material to Confederate soldiers are now well underway. George J. Sumner, Treasurer of the Baptist Colportage Board, is now living in Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate Capital. This month he reports that the board has received $3,500 to assist in providing religious reading material to the Confederate Army in…