Southern Baptist newspapers during the war publish articles on a wide variety of subject matter, both religious and non-religious. And while many Baptists all too readily prefer to sort subjects into neat and clear sacred and secular categories, the war so intermingles the two that they often overlap or even fuse together in such a…
In the heart of winter a military campaign in North Carolina offers a glimpse into the likely outcome of the war. The town of Newbern (or New Bern) came under attack earlier in the month … by Confederate forces. Located in eastern North Carolina, the Union-controlled town represented an unwelcome dilemma for the Confederacy. In…
Today in Natchez, Mississippi, a Union-occupied city since September 1863, an experiment begins in the city’s Rose Hill Baptist Church, a historic black congregation. The experiment is in the form of a church day school for black children, a school enabled by the support of Northern abolitionists who provide teachers for the new school. In…