The deaths of Baptist Confederate soldiers now likely number in the thousands, whether from wounds or sickness. With increasing frequency, obituaries are published in Southern Baptist newspapers, often months after the death occurs, such as the following obituary in today’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index. Died in the army of the Confederate States, at Lynchburg with…
As the second anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War inches ever closer, many Baptist congregations of the South by this point have largely redirected their mission efforts to Confederate soldiers by collecting funds to support army chaplains and provide Christian literature to soldiers. Helping Baptist soldiers maintain their faith and evangelizing non-Christian soldiers…
The war is not the only destructive force that sometimes causes harm to churches of the Confederacy. Weather can also be problematic. Today a tornado damages the First Baptist Church of Shelbyville, Tennessee. We are informed that Shelbyville was visited by another hurricane on last Saturday [7th] night, which blew down the Baptist Church, the…