A recent letter from Confederate hero Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is now making the rounds of the Baptist press of the South.The correspondence serves to enhance his growing legend as the South’s righteous Christian warrior, a man who traces his love of the Bible to a Baptist church he attended in his youth. Head. Qrs.…
A letter from an anonymous North Carolina Confederate soldier is published in today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch, lamenting the Confederate government not protecting his state’s citizens from marauding federal troops. Thinking it may be interesting to the many readers of your excellent paper and perhaps cause our Government to turn a listening ear to the plaintive…
Georgia Baptists this week read about life in the Confederate capital of Richmond following the recent Confederate victory over U.S. General McClellan’s Army of the Potomac, as described by an editorial in the Christian Index. Our capital is surely not a place for pleasure seekers, at this time. Crowded with visitors from all parts of…