In the deep South, Union forces now have a secure hold on the South Carolina coast. Beaufort is under control of the 100th Pennsylvania Regiment, the men of whom are convinced they are following the directive of God in ensuring the welfare of the freedmen under their protection, following a victorious fall campaign against Confederate…
Today’s Richmond Times Dispatch reports: Rev. L. W. Allen, a Baptist clergyman from Caroline county, passed through this city a few days since en route for Kentucky, to raise a regiment with which to fight the Yankee invaders. Rev. Mr. Allen has until recently been the pastor of one of the largest churches in Louisville,…
This week’s Tennessee Baptist newspaper seeks assistance from Baptist women and merchants in the publishing of Bibles for Confederate soldiers. We do not believe in giving up to misfortune, or to cowering before difficulties, though they seem insurmountable. When it seemed impossible to print the Word of God in the South for our soldiers and…