How are Southern Baptist pastors to support the institution of African slavery? A pastor in Washington, Georgia models the manner in which whites are to minister to slaves, according to a correspondent writing for a Virginia-based Baptist newspaper. A correspondent of the Religious Herald writing from Washington, Ga., gives the following account of the labors…
This week Basil Manly Jr., co-editor of the newly-formed Baptist Sunday School Board along with John A. Broadus, from South Carolina sends a letter under a flag of truce to Richard Fuller, pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church in Baltimore. Manly is desperate to obtain New Testaments for use in Sundays Schools in Southern Baptist…
Confederate General Robert E. Lee, on the march northward, is placing pressure on the United States Army. Lieutenant General Richard S. Ewell, moving down the Shenandoah Valley in the direction of Pennsylvania, today battles a Union garrison at Winchester, Virginia. By nightfall the Confederates have effectively defeated the Union forces, who begin quietly withdrawing under…