Today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch profiles a Richmond Baptist college that is a newly-converted Confederate hospital, one of dozens of hospitals in the city treating wounded Confederate soldiers. Richmond Female Institute. – This fine building, on 10th street has been taken by the authorities and is now being rapidly fitted up as a hospital for the…
Today, a letter from “J. J.” is published in North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder, calling for righteousness on the part of Southerners in order to ensure Confederate victory in the war. The cause for which our country is now contending should inspire every person to renewed energy and fervent devotion and dependence on God and…
“Devoted to Religion, Morality, Literature and General Intelligence.” Thus reads the tagline of North Carolina Baptists’ newspaper, the Biblical Recorder. In the spirit of that mission, and during a time when many Baptist churches of the South are struggling to keep the door’s open as the war rages on and on, this week’s edition of…