This month the members of Meadow Branch Baptist Church in North Carolina are presented with a certificate of baptism signed by Confederate chaplain (or perhaps army missionary) A. L. Stowe and indicating that three of the church’s soldier sons had been immersed and desired church membership. Soldiers William H. Trull, Thomas S. Trull and A.…
Today’s Richmond Times Dispatch reports on activity along Virginia’s peninsula, as well as revivals within Virginia regiments. All is quiet on the Peninsula since the late gunboat fight. The forces engaged in the actions with the steamers at Deep Bottom and Turkey Island were eight companies of the 26th Va. regiment and one section each…
Today is day four of the Southern Baptist Convention meeting, hosted by the Green Street Baptist Church of Augusta, Georgia. After the singing of a hymn, the first order of business is a war-related matter: the offering of a resolution regarding army chaplains, missionaries and colporteurs. Resolved, 1st. That it is the sense of this…