North Carolina Biblical Recorder editor J. D. Hufham today offers a commentary on sin in the Confederacy. A short time since we noticed a gentleman indulging in practices which in other days, he would severely and justly have censured in another. He stood high in the estimation of his brethren, for the consistency and apparent…
Robert Smalls, former slave, African American Baptist layman, and United States hero for his daring capture of a Confederate steamer last year, now serves in the U.S. Navy. He is currently assigned to Port Royal, South Carolina, where he is a pilot with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Today Smalls pilots the USS Keokuk, under…
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,…