An editorial in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index compares “Religion North and South,” turning to the alleged witness of a Union chaplain to prove that Confederate soldiers are more righteous than their northern counterparts. The London Times, in its remarks upon the late judicious address put forth to the christians of the world, by…
The Central Baptist Association of middle Georgia, convening yesterday, rejoiced in the “conversions of thousands in our armies.” Many other Southern Baptists this month also express thankfulness for the conversions resulting from army revivals. Nonetheless, one Southern Baptist first-hand observer of Confederate army life, writing from Lake City, Florida, throws cold water on the talk…
Today the U.S. War Department gives black abolitionist Frederick Douglass, a friend of Northern Baptists, permission to travel to Vicksburg and recruit “colored troops” in the Union-controlled Southern city. Douglass has already been a successful recruiter for other African American regiments, including the notable 54th Massachusetts Regiment, where two of his own sons serve. C.…