Emily Quiner, a nurse in a Union hospital in Memphis returns to her home in Madison, Wisconsin, and worships in her home church this morning. Prior to the war Quiner was a school teacher in Madison and a member of the Janesville Baptist Church. For the past two months, however, she has been serving as…
This month the members of Meadow Branch Baptist Church in North Carolina are presented with a certificate of baptism signed by Confederate chaplain (or perhaps army missionary) A. L. Stowe and indicating that three of the church’s soldier sons had been immersed and desired church membership. Soldiers William H. Trull, Thomas S. Trull and A.…
Circulating in the Southern Baptist press this week is a brief piece from a correspondent in the Confederate capital of Richmond who profiles a Baptist leader who has devoted himself to the “religious instruction of our slaves.” In the midst of wide spread indifference toward the religious instruction of our slaves, and the efforts of…