A Southern Baptist newspaper editor calls upon his readers to “never despair” in the face of recent Confederate setbacks. The Charleston Mercury reminds those who are despondent at the late reverses, that they are not to be compared with those endured by Holland and Switzerland to secure their independence, or those of Prussia in her…
In the wake of the debilitating losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, the young Confederate nation, it’s existence almost entirely framed by war, is in its greatest crises to date. North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder editor J. D. Hufham reflects on the situation, today conveying his thoughts–and hopes–to his readers. The condition of the country is…
While slaveholders, politicians, civil servants, religious leaders and newspaper editors in the Confederacy lament over the losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg and try to sort out the meanings and repercussions thereof, many ordinary Southerners do the same. Mary Beckley Bristow is one of those ordinary Southerners. She is a member of the Sardis Baptist Church…