The Civil War disrupts educational institutions in Southern Baptist life. As the new school year approaches, Baptist colleges face severe shortages of students, many of whom are now enrolled in the Confederate Army. Yet the educational crisis is present beyond Baptist life. Throughout the South, public and private schools have witnessed an exodus of teachers…
In Northern Virginia, Confederate activity is stirring on the grounds of Frying Pan Baptist Church. Colonel Philip St. George Cocke reports, “Major Wheat’s Louisiana First Special Battalion was added to my command and stationed at or near Frying Pan Church, and Captain Alexander’s troop of cavalry also added to Terry’s at the same place. Subsequently…
James Burrell Jones’ second son is born tonight, the day before eighteen-year old Jones marches off to war, leaving his teenage wife to raise two children and tend their south Georgia farm. She “did all the farming, plowed, hoed and everything that has to be done on a farm. She also spun and weaved…