Today’s South Carolina Confederate Baptist newspaper publishes the obituaries of two ministers whose lives were taken earlier in the war. Both were pastors of churches in the state’s Reedy River Association. REV. R. B. HALK. A member of New Harmony Church, licensed in 1859. He was sent to school two years under the guardianship of…
This month the members of Meadow Branch Baptist Church in North Carolina are presented with a certificate of baptism signed by Confederate chaplain (or perhaps army missionary) A. L. Stowe and indicating that three of the church’s soldier sons had been immersed and desired church membership. Soldiers William H. Trull, Thomas S. Trull and A.…
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.…