Today’s Richmond Times Dispatch reports on activity along Virginia’s peninsula, as well as revivals within Virginia regiments. All is quiet on the Peninsula since the late gunboat fight. The forces engaged in the actions with the steamers at Deep Bottom and Turkey Island were eight companies of the 26th Va. regiment and one section each…
Southern Baptist newspapers frequently appeal to Confederate soldiers to place their faith in God and hope in the afterlife, appropriating images of mothers, wives and sisters. The following appeal in circulation this week is one example: Soldier of the Southern Confederacy! –To you I would fain speak a few words, and though others wield the…
The South Carolina Baptist State Convention meeting concludes today in Darlington. Army missions (missionaries and colporters both) have been much on the minds of delegates. A listing of religious tracts produced for Confederate soldiers in the past twelve months offers insights into religious materials that are currently circulating in army camps. TITLE. No. Pages. No.…