Southern Baptists on the home front are fed a steady diet of depressing news from Confederate Army camps. The bearers of the bad news in the Southern Baptist press are soldiers, army chaplains, army missionaries, army evangelists and news correspondents. In addition to death and illness, lamentations regarding army camps decry the sin and decadence,…
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…
The Alabama State Baptist Convention meets this month in Selma, “a beautiful city on the bluffs of the Alabama river.” During the conference “the principle subject, of course, was the moral culture of our soldiers,” as one participant, identified only as “N. P. Y.”, reports afterward. The same observer offers an account of the main…