Mundane events reveal interesting details of Baptist life in the Confederate capital of Richmond, such as the following news account: Bob, slave of Captain Jackson Warner, hired as nurse at the Baptist Female Institute, was taken in custody, on Saturday, and lodged in prison, by the Military police, for stealing a pocket-book containing $85 in…
The small community of Crab Orchard, Lincoln County, Kentucky, finds itself in the midst of a tug of war between Confederate and Union forces. Crab Orchard is under the control of the United States, but today, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan’s Cavalry, the First Kentucky, burns the Dix River Bridge near the town and sets…
For months, many Northern Baptists have been agitating the U.S. Congress to pass a confiscation act that will permanently free African slaves. Today, their wishes, as well as those of many Northern Christians at large, are granted, as Congress passes the Second Confiscation Act that is, in effect, an emancipation proclamation that grants permanent freedom…