The “Jackson Greys” regiment of Virginia, formed on the grounds of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, this month is transferred to Sewell’s Point on the coast. Located at the mouth of Hampton Roads, Sewell’s Point is a major strategic coastal point in the war. On May 18-19, 1861, Federal gunboats exchanged fire with Confederate batteries…
Readers of today’s North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder learn of a fast day sermon entitled “The Uses of War” recently preached in Richmond, Virginia, by a “Dr. Moore.” The paper reprints a portion of the sermon as follows: War was a part of the agency by which God disciplines nations. So long as there was…
This week the Southern Baptist public reads the recent resolution on “The State of the Country” adopted by the Welsh Neck Baptist Association of South Carolina, established in 1832. A rousing and pointed defense of white supremacy and African slavery without actually utilizing the “s” word (there is no need to use the word, as…