Confederate citizens are growing increasingly restless under the ever-expanding heavy hand of the Confederate government. Southern Baptist leaders are no exception. Basil Manly, Sr. is a leading Alabama Southern Baptist pastor and denominational leader. Today his two horses are conscripted by the Confederate Army. The man who at one time served as chaplain to the…
News of the the Lincoln administration granting permission to the American Baptist Home Mission Society to fill pulpits in abandoned Baptist churches of the South does not sit well with Southern Baptist divines. A caustic and defiant editorial originally published in the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald , reacting to an earlier editorial in the New…
Sagging Confederate fortunes weigh heavily on the minds of many white Southerners. Yet for others, resolve and determination grows with each setback. Today in Oklahoma yet another military setback steels the resolve of the many ardent Confederates. In what becomes known as the Battle of Middle Foggy, 350 federal Cavalrymen under Union Major Charles Willets…