Thanks in large part to the efforts of Southern Baptists, Christian literature is proliferating in Confederate Army camps. Stories of the positive effect of such literature are now circulating in the Baptist press of the South, such as the following story told by an army colporter. One young man told me that he dated his…
Baptist churches South and North navigate the war years in a variety of ways. Many Baptist churches of the Confederacy are forced to close their doors due to the loss of so many members to the army, lack of pastoral leadership, economic pressures, proximity to army activity, confiscation by the Union Army, or a combination…
North Carolina Baptists this week read of the work of Baptist pastor B. F. Jessup, who is ministering to wounded and sick Confederate soldiers in the Confederate hospital in Wilmington, the city which had experienced a devastating outbreak of yellow fever the previous fall. I am often affected to tears in my morning rounds (through…