Early spring has arrived, and with it the promise of the large-scale resumption of battles. Today’s minor military happenings merely serve as preludes to the great clashes which are surely to come. Among the day’s developments are the capture of a Confederate outpost at Cherry Grove, Virginia and skirmishes in Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri. The…
The struggle over Confederate public morale continues. The North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder urges readers to maintain faith in their country. One of the duties of the hour, incumbent on every christian patriot, is to have faith for his country. The face of the sky, lately so fair and cloudless, so cheering to every beholder…
Within the Confederacy, church, culture and government are so intertwined in support of African slavery that they often speak and act in unison. Southern elites, mostly large-scale slaveholding planters who occupy government offices and other public positions of various kinds, are grateful that Southern Christian leaders (many of whom are also slave owners of considerable…