Today is Sunday, but church services are not the only matter occupying the minds of Baptists in Richmond, Virginia. Jefferson Davis and his family — wife, Varina, and children Margaret, Jefferson Jr. and Joseph — arrive in Richmond and are greeted by enthusiastic Virginians. Davis’s arrival is in conjunction with the moving of the Confederate…
The war is the talk of the town in Greenville, South Carolina as the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary graduates its second class. Nearly one hundred years later, a historian would thus comment on this day: “When the second commencement of Southern seminary was held on May 27, 1861, great excitement prevailed in the seminary family.…
Confederate General Robert E. Lee seeks to bolster his army both in terms of manpower and firearms. Today he writes Georgia governor Joseph E. Brown (image), noting that many Georgia volunteer companies are arriving in Virginia without weapons. Lee requests weapons from Brown, having already made similar requests from politicians of other states. A Baptist…