Sagging Confederate fortunes weigh heavily on the minds of many white Southerners. Yet for others, resolve and determination grows with each setback. Today in Oklahoma yet another military setback steels the resolve of the many ardent Confederates. In what becomes known as the Battle of Middle Foggy, 350 federal Cavalrymen under Union Major Charles Willets…
Southern Baptist newspapers weekly report on the revivals taking place within the Confederate Army and in the Baptist churches of the South, frequently celebrating spiritual victories as a prelude to ultimate military triumph over the United States. Revivals, however, are not confined to the Confederacy. Although the Northern press may not evidence as much intensity…
The Southern Baptist Convention is now in its third day of meetings. The battlefields are distant, but as in the previous two days, the war remains uppermost on the minds of the Southern Baptist divines who today, a Sunday, fill pulpits throughout the city of Augusta. Unbeknownst to these Baptists, Confederate hero Gen. Thomas “Stonewall”…