The Battle of Cold Harbor is over, a battle in which Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia soundly defeats Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s the Army of the Potomac. Union casualties and losses total nearly 13,000, to the Confederates 5,300. Yet Grant, backed by a steady stream of new recruits entering Union…
In the face of a grinding, drawn-out war in which the North by now has the decided upper hand, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, having been a Baptist in his youth, today composes a letter to three prominent northern Baptists – George B. Ide, James R. Doolittle, and A. Hubbell – offering further reflection on the…
While white Southern Baptist elites fervently defend bondage as God’s will for blacks and fret over the possibility of a future without riches and comfort derived from the labor of black slaves, Northern (American) Baptists celebrate the impending freedom that they feel certain is the future of all blacks, as well as the will of…