The Hephzibah Baptist Association of Georgia is now in annual session. Meeting at Bark Camp in Burke County, Hephzibah Baptists recommend church Sunday Schools and report on the progress of a college preparatory school operated by the association. Among other advances, a new school building has recently been completed and 84 students are currently enrolled.…
Delegates to the recent Rehoboth Baptist Association of middle Georgia, held at Traveller’s Rest Baptist Church in Macon County, are this week reporting back to their respective congregations. Rehoboth Baptists, assured of God’s hand upon the Southern Confederacy, have proudly made their convictions known: In the midst of the stiring events which are to effect…
Today, Presley Barry Womack enlists in Company I, Forty-eighth Illinois Infantry. He serves as a hostler for the officers of the company, and sees action in the battles of Fort Henry and Shiloh. Born in Wayne County, Illinois in 1830, Presley, a Baptist, has personal childhood memories of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. When Womack was…