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Tag Archives: confederate newspapers

Baptists and the American Civil War: December 15, 1863

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…

December 15, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
J. D. Hufham

Baptists and the American Civil War: October 20, 1863

Each week during the war, editors of (white) Southern Baptist newspapers offer a potpourri of short pieces that collectively reveal their perspectives of the great conflict. By and large, these gatekeepers of denominational news are ardent supporters of the Confederacy, albeit the nuances of their shared nationalism (like that of the white South at large)…

October 20, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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