General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson has emerged as a hero in the minds of many white Southerners. At a time when the Confederate Army at large has not been effective in repelling Union advances, Jackson’s daring and successful military tactics serve as an inspiration to a nation under assault. A Virginia Religious Herald profile of the…
Published in this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder is the testimony of a Confederate soldier, a testimony that reflects common evangelistic language and imagery among Baptists of the South. I belonged to a Virginia regiment, engaged in active service, in the mountains, far away from friends and home. I was surrounded by wicked and…
In order for God to bestow victory upon His chosen Confederacy, white southerners have a duty to perform, a duty that includes refraining from criticism of the South’s political and military leaders, according to J.D. Hufham, the editor of North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder. An esteemed brother, writing on business from a point which is…