This month an anxious mother receives a reassuring letter from her Confederate soldier son (one of five who are serving in the army), who himself is anxious from not yet having received a response to his last letter. The Blackford family is a Virginia family of some means with a pre-war history of support for…
Today from the pulpit of the First Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia, pastor John L. Burrows delivers a rousing sermon criticizing the opening of a new theatre in the Confederate capital. The new theatre replaces the city’s Hewitt Theatre that had burned on New Year’s day, and was built and is owned by a woman,…
The ripple effects of December’s Battle of Fredericksburg continue as today William F. Broaddus begins a new chapter in his ministerial career. Broaddus, well-known Virginia Baptist educator and preacher from Fredericksburg, has had his share of difficulties in recent times. After having spent almost two months in a Union prison in Washington, D.C. from July…