This week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder publishes several letters from Confederate army chaplains and missionaries, as well as accounts of church revivals in North Carolina. At times, soldier evangelism and church revivals overlap, as related in the following letter. Hertford County, Sept. 14, 1863. Dear Brother Hufham:–Allow me a short space in the Recorder…
Southern hand-wringing over July’s losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg continues. One common response by Baptist leaders of the South is to search for the sins of the Confederacy that have led to God’s disfavor upon his chosen nation. There is, however, no consensus on what may be the primary sin of the Confederate nation, a…
This month the Beaver Baptist Association of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania passes a resolution advocating “the confiscation of Rebel property” and “justice to all inhabitants of the land.” While enslaved Americans yet await freedom, white Baptists North and South live out their freedoms in a variety of ways. Today in Detroit, Michigan future Baptist clergyman, Isaac…