Baptists of Alabama’s Central Baptist Association meet at the Poplar Spring Baptist Church in Coosa County and, like so many other Southern Baptist associations this fall season, address the war and army missions. Soon after assembling, the first resolution is passed. Whereas, a large majority of our churches are in a cold, declining condition, and…
As war-time casualties mount North and South, the two warring American nations increasingly make public appeals to God for his blessings in the form of victory over the enemy. This fall season, petitions to God arising from within the Confederate States are typically presented in the context of fasting and prayer and are frequently laced…
Some war stories are stranger than fiction. Such is the case with the story of 29-year old Robert Franklin Hamilton (1834-1923) from Hendersonville, North Carolina, who today, in Knoxville, Tennessee, enrolls in the 2nd Regiment, North Carolina Mounted Infantry, a Union regiment. Earlier in the war, in 1862 a newly-married Hamilton joined the army of…