Today a North Carolina army missionary, a minister working to distribute Christian literature among North Carolina’s confederate soldiers, from Goldsboro (east of Raleigh) pens a letter reminding home front North Carolinians that the future of the Confederacy lies in the hands of “our young men” in the army. …. Remember my dear friends that nearly…
Of the hundreds of escaped slaves in South Carolina and Georgia fleeing to Union-controlled Port Royal Island, South Carolina, many are Baptists. While the stories are joyful in that freedom is obtained, there are often elements of hardship and sadness in the journey away from captivity, as U.S. Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, abolitionist and the…
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s Emancipation Proclamation has not only stirred feelings North and South, but also across the Atlantic Ocean. England, having outlawed slavery decades ago, harbors enough interest in the matter that at least one meeting is convened to discuss the proclamation, as is reported in today’s New York Times. Next week, a few…