Samuel Pearce Richards (1824-1910) is a member of Atlanta’s Second Baptist Church and an Atlanta bookseller that, having “no ambition to acquire military renown and glory,” has managed to avoid service in the Confederate Army. The former Unionist maintains a home front diary during the war, and today, amidst noting family affairs, worries that he…
As dawn arrives, twenty-seven members of a Union cavalry unit, the U.S. Loudoun (Virginia) Rangers, are holed up inside the Waterford Baptist Church. The county of Loudoun is under Federal control, and local Union supporter Captain Samuel Means is in charge of the cavalrymen. The remainder of Means’ men are guarding the roads into town…
A recent letter from Confederate hero Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is now making the rounds of the Baptist press of the South.The correspondence serves to enhance his growing legend as the South’s righteous Christian warrior, a man who traces his love of the Bible to a Baptist church he attended in his youth. Head. Qrs.…