Amos C. Dayton (1811-1865), a popular Baptist pastor and advocate of Landmarkism, this month offers his answer to the Southern question of, “Is God on Our Side?” Regarding African slavery, the Confederacy is clearly on God’s side, according to Dayton. But on certain issues of government holiness and purity, the South needs to align itself…
United States General George B. McClellan is still hunkered down outside of Richmond with 105,000 Union troops. Yet Southern sentiment is a bit more positive now, as the enemy’s momentum has stalled. Today, Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in command of the Army of Northern Virginia since June 1, displays the tactical boldness that will…
White Baptist commitment to the Confederacy is similar to that of the South’s other Christian denominations: many if not most embrace (in some fashion or another) the Confederacy as God’s Kingdom on earth, while few publicly disagree with the belief that African slavery is God’s will for the black race. Calvinism, a long-held Christian belief…