Some casualties of the war take place far away from the battlefields. Today a Union barracks in Nashville, Tennessee collapses, killing a number of Confederate prisoners and injuring hundreds. The collapse of the Maxwell House prison–formerly the unfinished Maxwell Hotel–is blamed on poor construction. Located near the Central Baptist Church, some of the injured are…
Two thirty-nine year old Baptist associations in Georgia meet today and reflect upon the condition of the Confederate States of America in the South’s war for the preservation of African slavery. One body is a Primitive Baptist association, and the other is Southern Baptist. Both associations were founded at a time when many Baptists of…
Circulating in the Southern Baptist press this week is a brief piece from a correspondent in the Confederate capital of Richmond who profiles a Baptist leader who has devoted himself to the “religious instruction of our slaves.” In the midst of wide spread indifference toward the religious instruction of our slaves, and the efforts of…