Today a new chapter in the war begins: Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia begin their first invasion of Northern territory. The timing of the offensive is not coincidental. The Union’s Army of the Potomac is reeling from a rebuffed attempt to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond. U.S. President…
This week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index publishes a letter from Southern Baptist Army Chaplain D. G. Daniell, who writes from Camp Causton Bluff near Savannah. ….I may mention the interest which the men manifest in religious newspapers, some thirty copies of which are circulated among them weekly, with the injunction to read and pass them…
Today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder publishes a letter from a North Carolina solider that touches upon many central themes of camp life: distance, death, religion, and vice. “A.H.C.” is stationed at Camp Pickens, Manassas, Virginia, with the 4th Regiment North Carolina State Troops. Bro. Hufham: It has been my privilege to read your paper occasionally,…