Today Jefferson Davis (a Kentucky native, like Abraham Lincoln) is elected as president of the Confederate States of America, following his service to this point as provisional president. The November election is confirmed in February, when electors from the Confederate States – each state having the same numbers of electors as they have members in…
The Bethel Baptist Association continues meeting in southwest Georgia. Having earlier endorsed the raising of money to send Bibles to southern soldiers, delegates also hear a report on the “State of the Churches.” The report is discouraging, as the war has impacted Georgia Baptists on the home front: In consequence of the distracted state of…
This week’s Tennessee Baptist, reprinting a story from the Richmond Daily Dispatch, sings the praises of patriotic southern women: The regular correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch, writing from Halifax Court House, remarks on the spirit of patriotism that so generally pervades the gentler sex and furnishes the following in illustration: I was much amused at…