In this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder, a contributer calls upon his fellow Southern Baptists to never give up the fight against the United States. The following remarks of the Fayetteville Observer will meet with the approbation of every patriot in the land. In the language of the editor in a previous issue, “It…
A brief article in this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder echoes advice from the South Carolina Confederate Baptist regarding church members who are growing corn partially to turn into whiskey, and partially to sell at high profits to the public, while food is ever more scarce in the South. The Confederate Baptist, in reply…
Southerner Jacob Eliot (1803-1870) of Corsicana, Texas is a successful attorney, a slaveholder, and the church clerk of the Corsicana Baptist Church. A senior citizen during the war, he assists the war effort on the home front. He also keeps a journal during the war, in which the entires tend to be brief and to…