Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia have been marching through Maryland for ten days, in the first invasion of the North by the South. Yesterday, however, an errant copy of Lee’s battle plans had fallen into Union hands. Union General George B. McClellan, previously too cautious to engage Lee, now…
At a time when the Confederacy’s fortunes seem to be on the upswing, this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder publishes a commentary on “Providence and this War.” You launch a loose plank on the swollen river, and from the bank watch patiently its course, as it drifts along–but you cannot guide it. It is…
This week, against Southern jubilation over the victory in the Second Battle of Bull Run, Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptist’s Christian Index, offers a summation of the second annual session of the Confederate Congress, currently in the third week (the session will not conclude until October) in Richmond, the nation’s capital. Many important bills…