As the year draws to the a close, the Confederate economy is on unsteady ground. Prior to the war, the combined economies of the southern states that now comprise the Confederacy would have ranked the South as the fourth richest nation in the world. The South’s monetary landscape today, however, is in the early stages…
The Frying Pan Baptist Church, located in northern Virginia, is situated along a critical road used for troop movement. Both Confederate and Union forces are alternatively dominate in the area during the war years. On the eve of the Battle of Manassas, the church yard had been used as a Confederate encampment. Today, the church…
A report of conditions in army hospitals is making the rounds in Southern Baptist newspapers. Originally appearing in the Mississippi Baptist paper, the war commentary, like so many other war-related articles that are printed in a given Baptist periodical of the South, is shared with other Baptist readers throughout the Confederacy. Religious comfort and instruction…