While not a national holiday nor widely celebrated as a religious holiday, Christmas eve has nonetheless arrived, signaling an occasion for many soldiers North and South to relax and, hopefully, look forward to better food on the morrow than on most days. Many, but not all: Christmas celebrations will vary from camp to camp and…
This week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index publishes a letter from Southern Baptist Army Chaplain D. G. Daniell, who writes from Camp Causton Bluff near Savannah. ….I may mention the interest which the men manifest in religious newspapers, some thirty copies of which are circulated among them weekly, with the injunction to read and pass them…
Cut off from the North and the world, the Confederacy struggles economically. Soaring inflation and shortages of food and clothing create unrest and uncertainty among the wealthy and poor alike. Southern Baptist army missionary and colporteur A. E. Dickinson of Virginia, however, offers a solution to banks and wealthy individuals who may be hoarding cash.…