William Taylor of Pennsylvania, born April 8, 1826 and now in Company G of the 100th Pennsylvania Regiment, is soon to be promoted to Sergeant (April 15, 1863), eventually earning the rank of Captain (October 4, 1864). His service in the United States army during the war takes him to Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Tennessee,…
The ripple effects of December’s Battle of Fredericksburg continue as today William F. Broaddus begins a new chapter in his ministerial career. Broaddus, well-known Virginia Baptist educator and preacher from Fredericksburg, has had his share of difficulties in recent times. After having spent almost two months in a Union prison in Washington, D.C. from July…
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s Emancipation Proclamation has energized the North in the war for freedom for all. Meanwhile, Southern Baptist leaders do their part to encourage white Southerners in their quest to forever enshrine white supremacy and African slavery in the Confederate States. This week, J. D. Hufham, editor of North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder,…