Today James B. Taylor, influential Virginia Baptist minister who is serving as pastor of Richmond’s Grace Street Baptist Church, opens the Virginia House of Delegates with prayer. A large portion of today’s business relates to the problem of alcohol within the Confederacy. An 1863 bill limits the use of grains for distillation into alcohol, yet…
Tennessee native William B. Bate (1826-1905) prior to war proved himself as a young man. Following his first job as a clerk on a steamboat, he then served in the United States Army (during the Mexican-American war), started a newspaper, served in the Tennessee House or Representatives, practiced law, served as attorney general for the…
Baptists of the South are hovering between two differing visions yielding a common, widely hoped-for result: one in which the current revivals in the Confederate Army appease their nation’s God who in turn brings an end to recent battlefield losses, drives the northern barbarians from Southern soil, and blesses the Confederacy with victory, peace and…