Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown, a Southern Baptist layman, has evidenced an independent streak since the beginning of the war. Brown governs over a state whose citizens, most of whom are not slave owners, barely supported secession in early 1861. In this second year of war, Brown has demonstrated that he will protect the interests…
Rev. A. E. Dickinson of Virginia, traveling throughout the Confederacy as a representative of the temporarily-shuttered Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board and coordinating Southern Baptist efforts to distribute Bibles to soldiers, this week offers a message of future hope (as related by a reporter) for his fellow white Southern Baptists. …. Christianity has achieved its…
Today, Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, recently named commander of the District of West Tennessee, launches the Vicksburg Campaign, a Union offensive to seize total control of the Mississippi River by capturing the fortified river city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. It will be months before Grant reaches Vicksburg, but the campaign will prove to be one…