Confederate citizens are growing increasingly restless under the ever-expanding heavy hand of the Confederate government. Southern Baptist leaders are no exception. Basil Manly, Sr. is a leading Alabama Southern Baptist pastor and denominational leader. Today his two horses are conscripted by the Confederate Army. The man who at one time served as chaplain to the…
Despite the reversal of fortunes in the Confederacy, Southern Baptist leaders remain firm in their support of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. For his part, Davis often couches the war against the United States as a holy war, as he does yet again today in an address to soldiers via General Orders No. 19. Davis’s optimistic…
With the coming of winter and in the wake of months of battlefield losses and home front economic hardships, despair has descended upon the Confederate States of America. Is there any hope of winning the terrible war waged against the abolitionist North? A brief commentary in the Georgia Baptist Christian Index , entitled “The Delusive…