For weeks, the Civil War has been a common subject of discussion when Baptists gather on Sundays. Whether spoken of from the pulpit or in the church yard, the talk is often animated. No where is this perhaps more true than in the Border States, where loyalties are clearly split and pro-slavery and anti-slavery convictions…
From today’s Tennessee Baptist newspaper, although apparently written a few days or weeks earlier, an article entitled “The Mary Sharp College and the War”: We have just returned from Winchester. On our way there we met with Prof. McCall, and some students of Union University returning home in the South, and learned from them the…
Pressure builds between the state of Virginia and adjacent Washington, D.C. Both the Union and the Confederacy realize that Virginia will be pivotal in the war. Against this backdrop, the U. S. Navy today blocks the entrances to the James River and Hampton Roads, Virginia. In addition, U.S. sources also seizes two additional Confederate vessels,…