According to some sources, a new Alabama Baptist newspaper is established today with the first publication of the bi-weekly Christian Herald at Moulton. Josephus Shackelford (1830-1915) is the editor. From the 1850s to the present Shackleford pastored a number of churches in the Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama region, while also teaching at various small Baptist…
Now blanketed by the chill of winter, anxiety courses through the veins of the Confederacy in the wake of many months of military setbacks. Government officials hope that the coming spring months will witness a curtailing of army desertions. Perhaps the revivals taking place in army camps will steel the South’s defenders to once again…
In one of the most ardent Confederate states, there is a pocket of white resistance that grows stronger as the war progresses. Now, as anti-Confederacy sentiment across the South is gradually rising due to hard economic conditions, home front deprivation, resentment of Confederate heavy-handedness, and the length of the conflict, more and more male residents…