Nearly two months after the African American 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment unsuccessfully but heroically attacked the Confederate’s Fort Wagner on Morris Island, South Carolina, the rebels — following constant bombardment for weeks on end that has damaged the fort, in the face of low provisions, and due to the decomposing bodies of dead Union soldiers…
Rev. John William Jones of Virginia is rapidly gaining a reputation as an outstanding Confederate Baptist chaplain. Today is a hallmark day in the life of Jones, as is later recalled. Along with many other chaplains, Mr. Jones was active “in season and out of season,” preaching, distributing Bibles and other good literature, working in…
An editorial in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index article speaks to the “present situation,” that is, the challenges to the Confederate cause in recent months. He who can view our present “Situation” without an intelligent degree of soberness, is certainly dead to a just appreciation of the crisis. Beyond a doubt perils of an…