The long reach of a caring Baptist minister (a pastor and American Baptist missionary) is evidenced today in a letter written by a Michigan soldier in the Michigan 7th Infantry Regiment, Company I. Head Qrs 7th Mich Vols Near Raccoon Ford Va. Sept 30./63 Dear Mother I am very busy just now with my monthly…
Some casualties of the war take place far away from the battlefields. Today a Union barracks in Nashville, Tennessee collapses, killing a number of Confederate prisoners and injuring hundreds. The collapse of the Maxwell House prison–formerly the unfinished Maxwell Hotel–is blamed on poor construction. Located near the Central Baptist Church, some of the injured are…
Two thirty-nine year old Baptist associations in Georgia meet today and reflect upon the condition of the Confederate States of America in the South’s war for the preservation of African slavery. One body is a Primitive Baptist association, and the other is Southern Baptist. Both associations were founded at a time when many Baptists of…