This month a scholar-in-the-making, whose recent appointment as a Southern Baptist missionary to Japan has been rescinded by war-related financial difficulties, joins Virginia’s Norfolk Light Artillery Blues. The new enrollee has an impressive pedigree: he is a graduate of the Norfolk Academy (a military school) and the University of Virginia, a student of John A.…
Southern Baptist efforts to supply religious reading material to Confederate soldiers are now well underway. George J. Sumner, Treasurer of the Baptist Colportage Board, is now living in Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate Capital. This month he reports that the board has received $3,500 to assist in providing religious reading material to the Confederate Army in…
Today tiny Lebanon Baptist Church in Crawford County, Georgia, convenes in a business meeting and grapples with war, death and God’s will. Anguished over the loss of a solider member and his father, the congregation issues a statement “in memory of our deceased Brethren O. M. McAfee & A. J. McAfee.” In the midst of…