North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder editor J. D. Hufham offers his current, and rather sober, assessment of the war effort as news of Confederate victory in the Battle of Chancellorsville filters southward. The next few weeks or months will be productive of results of vast moment to the people of this nation. The enemy seem…
Today marks the two year anniversary of the surrender of Fort Sumter, off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, to the then newly-formed Confederate States of America. The surrender came two days after the Civil War began when South Carolina soldiers fired upon the federal fort. At the time, few South or North believed the…
From Harrell’s Store in Hanover County, North Carolina, a writer identified only as “Stella” makes a home front appeal to the women of the Confederacy in this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder. I read an article today in the Richmond Whig, on the condition of our army, which stirred my soul to its very…