Today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder carries a story about an anonymous Southern preacher who is asked why he does not offer prayers for Confederate sailors. First published in an Anglican newspaper, the story resonates with Baptists enough to make the rounds in Baptist periodicals. Last Sunday as I came out of the pulpit, a…
The pastor of the First Baptist Church of Georgia’s port city of Savannah reports on his church’s activities in a letter published in today’s edition of the local newspaper, the Savannah Republican. Mr. Editor: A communication in your paper signed “A Soldier,” implies a want of information. “One of the Clergy,” in the paper of…
The deaths of Baptist Confederate soldiers now likely number in the thousands, whether from wounds or sickness. With increasing frequency, obituaries are published in Southern Baptist newspapers, often months after the death occurs, such as the following obituary in today’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index. Died in the army of the Confederate States, at Lynchburg with…