Meeting this week, the Philadelphia Baptist Association – the nation’s oldest Baptist association – meets and issues a statement concerning the war: The rebellion has unlawfully seized property and usurped constitutional powers and made war on the United States. It is necessary for Christians to avoid “complicity with traitors” and must work solely for the…
Today may be much like many another day in camp as soldiers mill around, settle into place, or follow orders from an officer. Some come, some go, some cook, some wash, some write letters. Some, like 23-year-old William Ira Ariail of Georgia, die without fanfare and without a grasp of what the war they had…
This month a scholar-in-the-making, whose recent appointment as a Southern Baptist missionary to Japan has been rescinded by war-related financial difficulties, joins Virginia’s Norfolk Light Artillery Blues. The new enrollee has an impressive pedigree: he is a graduate of the Norfolk Academy (a military school) and the University of Virginia, a student of John A.…