News of the the Lincoln administration granting permission to the American Baptist Home Mission Society to fill pulpits in abandoned Baptist churches of the South does not sit well with Southern Baptist divines. A caustic and defiant editorial originally published in the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald , reacting to an earlier editorial in the New…
Three years after the beginning of the war, both North and South are desperately recruiting soldiers to fill their decimated army ranks. Today Tennesseans Lemuel and Barak Chambers, father and son, enlist in the Union Army. They have long-standing Baptist roots. The father of Barak and grandfather of Lemuel, Barak Chambers (1792-1847), was a Baptist…
Confederate Gen. James Longstreet‘s campaign to retake Knoxville, Tennessee from occupying Union forces has been underway since November 16, to no avail. Having given up on his siege efforts, Longstreet on December 4 had left the Knoxville area and headed northeast, pursued by Union forces. Today the Knoxville Campaign comes to an end when Longstreet…