News from Gettysburg and Vicksburg has spread throughout the South, although thanks to the inefficiencies and shortcomings of communication, the facts are frequently interspersed with supposition and rumors. While yet uncertain of many details about Gettysburg, this week North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder editor J. D. Hufham breaks the sobering news of Confederate losses at…
Today U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is delighted to learn of the capture of Vicksburg. The good news is tempered, however, when later in the day he is informed that Union Gen. George G. Meade has failed to aggressively pursue the retreating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. News of the…
Days after the Confederacy suffers enormous battlefield losses at Gettysburg, and before many Southerners have heard the news, the Elon Baptist Church of the Dover Association in Virginia goes on record declaring that Christian duty demands obedience to Confederate government officials. In addition, the congregation insists that Christians must “aid and encourage them [Confederate government…