Disappointment permeates the Confederacy following General Robert E. Lee’s unsuccessful foray northward. Now back in Virginia following the Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam), Reuben Allen Pierson of Mount Lebanon, Louisiana is serving as a sergeant in Company C, Ninth Louisiana Infantry in Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Mount Lebanon had been established in 1837 primarily by…
Reprinted in today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder is a letter from a Confederate correspondent from Camp Magnum, near Raleigh, North Carolina, who in recent weeks wrote of his observations regarding newly-mandated prayers at Confederate Army dress parades. All the troops in this State now have prayer at Dress Parades. This was commenced a week…
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.…