The Southern Baptist Convention is now in its third day of meetings. The battlefields are distant, but as in the previous two days, the war remains uppermost on the minds of the Southern Baptist divines who today, a Sunday, fill pulpits throughout the city of Augusta. Unbeknownst to these Baptists, Confederate hero Gen. Thomas “Stonewall”…
Bested by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia, Union Gen. Joseph Hooker orders his Army of the Potomac to retreat across the Rappahannock River. The withdrawal continues until the morrow, but the Battle of Chancellorsville is effectively over today. Hooker’s retreat takes Lee by surprise, as he had planned another assault upon the…
As the Battle of Chacellorsville (Virginia) winds down and proves to be a victory for the Confederacy, this week’s readers of the North Carolina Biblical Recorder read more letters from army missionaries serving among Confederate soldiers. One such letter is written by army colporter J. A. Stradley, who, during this time of growing revivals within…