Baptist newspaper editors of the South search Northern papers for any hint of negative press regarding the United States, often re-printing suitable articles with appropriate commentary. Such is the case in this week’s Virginia Religious Herald newspaper. We are indebted to a friend, for a late copy of the New York Independent–the organ of the…
Ohio native, outlaw and Confederate raider William Quantrill is on the run with about 300 men. On August 21, Quantrill and some 450 men had attacked Lawrence, Kansas and murdered 183 men and boys. Lawrence was the home of U.S. Senator James H. Lane, a leading voice in keeping slavery out of Kansas. Lane had…
Today Mary Beckley Bristow, a member of the Sardis Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky and a Confederate supporter, journals her anxieties about her nation and family. Have been busy about many things to day, but one subject is on my mind and in my heart almost forever when awake, let me be doing what I…