Today U.S. President Abraham Lincoln makes an appearance at the U.S. Sanitary Commission‘s fair in Washington, D.C. Lincoln commends the organization’s work on behalf of federal soldiers. Formed in 1861, the Sanitary Commission is a federal government agency tasked with coordinating thousands of volunteers who are collectively ensuring sanitary conditions in military camps and providing…
Women in Baptist life of the South — reflecting southern life at large — play a support role to the male gender. Whereas Baptist women preachers and deaconneses in the mid-18th century were not uncommon in some southern colonies, such roles for females have long since been abandoned in Baptist life. In the present war,…
Southern women, living in a male-dominated culture, play limited – but important – roles during the war. From the home front to the hospitals near the battle fronts, women maintain their families and farms and assist in doctoring and offering comfort to soldiers. Baptist women are involved in the latter as much as are other…