Today Mary Beckley Bristow, a member of the Sardis Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky and a Confederate supporter, journals her anxieties about her nation and family. Have been busy about many things to day, but one subject is on my mind and in my heart almost forever when awake, let me be doing what I…
The Union Army, under Major General William Rosecrans, currently occupies Chattanooga, Tennessee following months of fighting their way through the state. Chattanooga, in southeast Tennessee, borders Georgia, separated by the mighty Tennessee River. The southern city is surrounded by mountains. Confederate General Braxton Bragg’s forces, having been forced into the mountains and ever further southward…
Today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder publishes a letter from L. C. Vass, Secretary of the Chaplain’s Association of the Army of Northern Virginia. The letter speaks to commonalities found between the various Protestant denominations in terms of ministering to Confederate soldiers, expressing hope that Baptists will work closely with the army-based organization. The church…