The Baptist press of the Confederacy is aflutter at the possibility of England declaring war on the United States, a prospect brought about by a blundering U.S. naval action. Known as the Trent Affair, named after the British ship on which the action transpired, the incident centers on the United States’ arrest of Confederate commissioners,…
Tennessee is home to many poor white Baptists, as Tennessee Baptist editor J. R. Graves is well aware. Acknowledging the circumstances of his readers, Graves often during the war years publishes, or re-publishes from other sources, advice on how to cope with hard times. U. S. blockades on southern trade routes portend a coming year…
The Frying Pan Baptist Church, located in northern Virginia, is situated along a critical road used for troop movement. Both Confederate and Union forces are alternatively dominate in the area during the war years. On the eve of the Battle of Manassas, the church yard had been used as a Confederate encampment. Today, the church…