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Tag Archives: army evangelist

Baptists and the American Civil War: October 4, 1863

Despite revivals in Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate soldiers camped at Marietta, Georgia seldom hear the Gospel proclaimed. A recent letter from Georgia Baptist army missionary James A. Toole appears in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index. From Marietta, Toole speaks of his work and mentions the lack of preaching…

October 4, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Wounded Confederate Soldiers

Baptists and the American Civil War: April 6, 1863

Southern Baptists on the home front are fed a steady diet of depressing news from Confederate Army camps. The bearers of the bad news in the Southern Baptist press are soldiers, army chaplains, army missionaries, army evangelists and news correspondents. In addition to death and illness, lamentations regarding army camps decry the sin and decadence,…

April 6, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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