Today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder reprints an article from the Richmond Dispatch that speaks to the spiritual needs of Confederate soldiers. Our soldiers are, for the most part, reading men. From childhood they have been accustomed to read papers, magazines, and books. Far from home, on the tented field, with so many leisure hours in…
This week’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder publishes a letter from a correspondent in the 1st Regiment of N. C. State Troops, identified as J. H. F. The correspondence echoes what many other Baptists in the Confederate army are saying: the South’s soldiers, by and large, are far from being Christian men. I am alone in…
White southerners are defending African slavery by the Bible, sword, blood … and southern literature. The Civil War has brought added urgency to an ongoing southern effort to lend literary credibility to a society and culture based on African slavery. Today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder makes note of this scholarly effort on the part of…