The South Carolina Baptist Convention continues meeting in its annual session at Greenville’s Furman University. Reports from army chaplains and missionaries are a highlight of the meeting. All the highlighted letters and summarized reports from the field (partially noted below) offer glowing accounts of spiritual hunger among Confederate soldiers. Rev. J. G. Landrum writes: “The…
In these early months of 1862, Confederate soldiers and other observers of Confederate army camp life (including chaplains, missionaries and local citizens) routinely write letters for publication in Southern Baptist news publications. There is typically a lag time of one to three weeks (or more) between the writing of the letters and publication in newspapers.…
A report of conditions in army hospitals is making the rounds in Southern Baptist newspapers. Originally appearing in the Mississippi Baptist paper, the war commentary, like so many other war-related articles that are printed in a given Baptist periodical of the South, is shared with other Baptist readers throughout the Confederacy. Religious comfort and instruction…