The First Baptist Church of Nashville, Tennessee, has experienced ups and downs during the past four years. When Nashville came under Union occupation in 1862, the church’s pastor and other ministers in the city refused to take the oath of allegiance to the United States, and were accordingly arrested. For several months during the year…
The Confederacy continues winding down. This month the one remaining Confederate medical laboratory, located in Columbia, South Carolina, shutters its doors. There is not much left in the largely empty building when the keys are handed over to a Union officer in the city. While the remaining vestiges of Confederate government properties are turned over…
The war may be over, but many Southern Baptist preachers remain opposed to the “fanaticism” (a common Southern word to describe abolitionism) of Baptist preachers of the North, particularly now that slaves have been emancipated, thereby effectively destroying the slave-driven economy of the South. This month a battle of essays plays out in the Kentucky…