The Richmond Howitzers 3rd Company forms at the Baptist Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. Soon attached to the 1st Regiment Virginia Artillery, it later becomes an independent company assigned to J.T. Brown’s and R.A. Hardaway’s Battalion of Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia. “They served in the Richmond area and were actively engaged from the Maryland Campaign…
Southern Baptists are ramping up production of tracts for Confederate soldiers through the Baptist Colportage Board in Richmond, Virginia. From today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch: A friend informs us that the Rev. M. D. Hoge, D. D., of this city, is now preparing a tract for general distribution among the Confederate forces, embodying just such advice…
As a result of the war, Baptist Sunday worship services in the South have taken on a new dimension. The war and the fate of the Confederacy are never far from the minds of congregants throughout the South, while preachers often utter some words that directly or indirectly refer to the crisis. Yet matters of…