From North Carolina’s 56th Regiment, a Baptist Confederate soldier writes of his unit’s recent movements and the challenges of reaching his fellow soldiers for Christ. His letter is published in today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder. Dear Bro. Hufham:–Though I am unaccustomed to writing for publication, I will solicit a small space in your columns, believing…
This week Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, speaks harshly of the growing problem of Confederate Army deserters. The evil of straggling from our army has reached such a magnitude, that it becomes us all to cry out against it and as far as possible to abate it. Each community should hunt up…
Baptist minister and soldier J. J. Hyman is serving as a chaplain in the 49th Georgia Regiment, a unit under the command of Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. The troops have been in winter quarters for several months now, awaiting the battles that are to come in the spring. For chaplains, the temporary settling of…