The war that many thought would end quickly yet rages on. In the North, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and many other politicians blame U.S. Gen. George McClellan for the prolonged war. In charge of the Army of the Potomac since July 1861, McClellan has proven too timid and ineffectual in campaign after campaign, whereas his…
Rev. A. E. Dickinson of Virginia, traveling throughout the Confederacy as a representative of the temporarily-shuttered Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board and coordinating Southern Baptist efforts to distribute Bibles to soldiers, this week offers a message of future hope (as related by a reporter) for his fellow white Southern Baptists. …. Christianity has achieved its…
The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina is wrapping up their annual convention. The subject of war has arisen a number of times, including a lengthy discussion of the need to put religious periodicals–particularly the state Baptist paper, the Biblical Recorder–into the hands of Confederate soldiers. Seemingly the most spirited debate related to the war…