The Battle of Perryville is over and Kentucky is solidly in Union hands. The Confederates have withdrawn from northern Kentucky and the healthy Confederate prisoners left behind in Perryville have been paroled by the United States Army. Now, to the victor falls the task of dealing with sick and wounded soldiers from both sides. The…
The war challenges Baptist higher education throughout the Confederacy. Already on the rise in the decade prior to the war and rivaling Methodist efforts, Baptists of the South, despite the national conflict, are yet evidencing some scholarly energy. This weeks Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph reports: Waco University, under the direction of the Baptists, opens its present…
Georgia Baptists’ Flint River Baptist Association meets today at Liberty Hall Church in Henry County. Delegates listen to a sermon from 2 Corinthians 4:4 on “The Glorious Gospel of Christ,” after which they get down to business. Following the appointment of committees, the first motion raised is offered by army missionary “Brother Van Hoose” who…