Not infrequently the Civil War divides families and generates opposing loyalties. As the fourth year of the great conflict approaches and the fortunes of the Confederate States fade, the divisive nature of the war becomes ever more noticeable and personal. Today, in many respects, is like many other days during the war. Men enroll as…
As spring hovers on the horizon, this week the Union begins an offensive expedition up the Red River and targeted at Shreveport, Louisiana, the headquarters of Confederate Gen. E. Kirby Smith’s Trans-Mississippi Department. Union Army Maj. General Nathaniel P. Banks and Union Navy Rear Admiral David D. Porter jointly command the combined force. The federals…
The current state of Southern Baptist thought and life has become so complex as to defy easy categorization. Southern Baptist newspapers, typically owned and published by well-to-do Baptists who represent the views of denominational leadership, deliver weekly dollops of defiance against the abolitionist United States, adding regular doses of optimism evidenced by this or that…