Addressing the Congress of the Confederate States of America, President Jefferson Davis discusses the need to make a south-wide assessment of the arms and munitions available to the Confederacy for the protection of Southern families from possible hostile action on the part of the United States of America. Meanwhile, New York Baptist layman and businessman…
With a Constitution in place, the Confederate States of America elects Commissioners to the Government of the United States of America. Among the Commissioners elected is Martin J. Crawford (1820-1883; illustration) of Georgia, a Baptist. A graduate of Mercer University, Crawford has previously served as a lawyer and judge in Georgia. After the war begins,…
Mary Beckley Bristow, an active member of Sardis Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky (a Calvinist congregation), in the pages of her diary offers personal commentary on the prospects of southern secession: Have been too restless in mind about the situation of this once happy country to even answer the letters of my correspondents. I can…