Many Baptist churches throughout the Confederacy hold monthly business meetings this weekend, the first of the month. One of these congregations is the Van Wert Baptist Church in Paulding County, Georgia. Van Wert is the county seat of recently-created Paulding County. The county and town share a common story in terms of their names, the…
From Harrell’s Store in Hanover County, North Carolina, a writer identified only as “Stella” makes a home front appeal to the women of the Confederacy in this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder. I read an article today in the Richmond Whig, on the condition of our army, which stirred my soul to its very…
Few Baptist churches of the South discuss soldier deaths in church records. When Southern Baptists do formally recognize the death of one of their own serving in the Confederate Army, such notice is more likely to be in a Baptist associational meeting or published in a Baptist newspaper. Today, the Alabama Baptist newspaper highlights the…