Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index today publishes a letter from a Georgia Baptist army missionary stationed at “Camp Brown (near Savannah).” The camp in question may have been south of Savannah and north of St. Simons Island. The Confederate’s Fort Brown at St. Simon’s Island, about sixty miles south of Savannah, weeks earlier was abandoned when…
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…
Confederate Baptists in the army and on the home front continue bewailing the inherently evil nature of the army of God’s chosen nation. Such is the debauchery of camp life that some argue there is no room for Christianity. “The Camp, No Place to Become a Christian.” — Thus spoke a sick soldier, as we…