During the gloominess that hangs over a despondent Confederacy, many white southerners cling to the hope that the past can yet be restored into a glorious future. Samuel Boykin, editor of the Georgia Baptist Christian Index and since prior to the war a dreamer of a glorious future for the Confederate nation, obliges the persistent…
Wives, children, siblings and parents on the Confederate home front worry incessantly about their soldier men, a situation reflected in Southern Baptist newspapers. This week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index repeatedly turns its attention to Confederate soldiers. The following editorial pays homage to those who fought in the recent Battle of Chickamauga, a battlefield victory that…
In the war between the the slave-holding Confederacy and the evil abolitionist North, many Southern Baptist leaders are convinced that God will ultimately rescue his chosen nation, despite the defeats–now three months distant but no less agonizing–at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. An editorial in today’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index epitomizes this certitude. Truly our young Confederacy…