Talks of revivals within the Confederate Army increasingly occupy space in Baptist newspapers of the South. The influence and work of faithful chaplains is said to be aiding the spread of revival fires. Or is this so? Alex Morgan, the Assistant Surgeon of the First Georgia Regiment, currently stationed at Camp Cumming near Mobile, Alabama,…
Revivals in the Confederate army camps and doctrinal debate among Baptists of the North offer two glimpses into Baptist life today. Today’s edition of Virginia Baptists’ Religious Herald reports that revival meetings within Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s army have been going on for “fifty-five consecutive days and nights without regard to weather or other…
With gathering momentum, African slavery is losing ground following the Emancipation Proclamation. Nowhere is this more evident than within Union-controlled areas along the South Carolina coast. In the state where the first shot of the war was fired, and where prior to the war some of the richest men in the nation lived–all large plantation…