With the South’s race-based culture, social structures and economy at stake in what has become a lingering war, white Southern thinkers, politicians, writers and elites spend no little energy philosophically defending Southern life and speculating about the future. Defeat, at least in public discourse, is an impossible outcome of the war, for it would signal…
First Baptist Church, Hillsborough, NC This month a new Baptist church is formed on Sand Mountain in Jackson County in north Alabama. The former Sand Mountain mission, an “arm” of nearby Friendship Baptist Church, formally becomes a church. Taking the name of Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church of Christ, the new church is constituted with…
Southern Baptists are ramping up production of tracts for Confederate soldiers through the Baptist Colportage Board in Richmond, Virginia. From today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch: A friend informs us that the Rev. M. D. Hoge, D. D., of this city, is now preparing a tract for general distribution among the Confederate forces, embodying just such advice…