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,…
In spite of the growing revivals in portions of the Confederate Army, many Baptists on the home front are increasingly worried about the largely godless life of Confederate soldiers. Two articles in this week’s edition of North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder do little to sooth such concerns. A soldier, writing to the Confederate Baptist, from…
Revivals in the Confederate army camps and doctrinal debate among Baptists of the North offer two glimpses into Baptist life today. Today’s edition of Virginia Baptists’ Religious Herald reports that revival meetings within Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s army have been going on for “fifty-five consecutive days and nights without regard to weather or other…