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.…
Midwesterners’ loyalties are divided, the region having for years been a lightning rod as the nation fought over whether or not slavery should be allowed in the region. Anti-slavery sentiment ultimately won the political battle, but the tension in the region ultimately had contributed to the coming of war. While the state of Missouri remains…
Not all Southern Baptist churches are happy with the state of affairs in the Confederacy. A growing propensity for Confederate army units to drill on the Sabbath is particularly offensive to many Baptists of the South, who seemingly have forgotten that only a few years earlier Baptists in America at large, champions of church state…