Elijah P. Marrs, Company L, 12th U.S. Colored Artillery, experiences an adventure-filled day in Kentucky. A slave until running away mere months ago, the Union soldier and Baptist layman, his company tasked with recruiting new black soldiers, unexpectedly confronts the prospect of death at the hands of Confederate soldiers. Fortunately, the encounter takes place in…
Today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder reprints an article from the Richmond Dispatch that speaks to the spiritual needs of Confederate soldiers. Our soldiers are, for the most part, reading men. From childhood they have been accustomed to read papers, magazines, and books. Far from home, on the tented field, with so many leisure hours in…
Today is Sunday, but church services are not the only matter occupying the minds of Baptists in Richmond, Virginia. Jefferson Davis and his family — wife, Varina, and children Margaret, Jefferson Jr. and Joseph — arrive in Richmond and are greeted by enthusiastic Virginians. Davis’s arrival is in conjunction with the moving of the Confederate…