In a reminder that many Baptists of the South are just as pro-war as other southerners, an announcement in this week’s Memphis Daily Appeal makes note of a new weapon of war invented by an enterprising Baptist minster: The Rev. Mr. Graves, a well known elder of the Baptist church, yesterday showed us a new…
Mississippi Baptist minister Mark P. Lowrey organizes the 32nd Mississippi regiment in north Mississippi and is elected Colonel of the regiment. This represents his second, and an unanticipated, stint of Confederate service. An excerpt from Lowrey’s autobiography speaks of his joining the army for the second time, as well as the days following: I had…
Prayer and God will save the honor of the South. Many Southern Baptists thus wish to believe. A pseudo-anonymous letter published in today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder reiterates this certainty of thought. Mr. Lincoln very complacently strokes his royal beard and puffs his Havana with a peculiar grace, for he says, with an air of…