Nashville, occupied by the United States Army, has become a significant Union supply and medical center in the South. All the Baptist churches in the city have been appropriated by federal troops, and many, including Second Baptist Church, are serving as hospitals. Known as the “Prison Hospital,” it houses both Union and Confederate prisoners, the…
Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, unsuccessful thus far in capturing Vicksburg, Mississippi, today gives up assaulting the city and orders his commanders to deploy siege tactics. Thus begins a month-long plus effort to force the city to surrender. Meanwhile, readers of North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder learn of a good report from the Confederate army…
John Randolph Tucker, the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, tonight lectures at the Second Baptist Church of Richmond to the Young Men’s Christian Association on the subject of “The Southern Church justified in its support of the South in the present war.” Tucker begins his discourse with a disclaimer concerning church and state.…