Robert G. Shaw, commander of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment — the first African-American regiment of the war — stationed in Union-controlled Beaufort District, South Carolina, for the second day in a row attends a local African Baptist church, writing of the experience to his mother. His words describing today’s Sunday service are not as complementary…
The editor of the North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder, J. D. Hufham, continually casts about for news of revivals in the Confederate Army. This week an item from the North Carolina Christian Advocate, authored by a Confederate army missionary, is set before the Baptists of the Tar Heel State, raising the argument that the home…
West Virginia is officially admitted into the Union as the 35th state of the United States. This land that formally constituted the western portion of Virginia has never been a stronghold for slavery. Residents, opposing secession in 1861, had on June 11 of that year nullified Virginia’s ordinance of secession and proclaimed their region as…