Several items in this week’s North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder offer perspective on Southern Baptist views of the nearly one-year old war. The extent of white Southern Baptist hatred of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is evident: The Church bells of the Southern cities are rapidly going to the foundry to be converted into cannon.…
Recent battlefield reversals and Union advancements in Tennessee and along the Confederate coast are ample fodder for sober assessments of the Southern war effort. Enthusiasm for the war effort is dampened in the minds of some, but many others are more determined than ever to defeat the invaders. White Southern Baptist elites take it upon…
Baptists of the South routinely criticize the evilness of Confederate Army camp life. Gambling, alcohol, sabbath-breaking and other vices increasingly come under withering condemnation. This week, the Southern Army of the Potomac, under the command of Brig. Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard, is scrutinized in the Baptist press. The date of this first-hand account of…