Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia have been marching through Maryland for ten days, in the first invasion of the North by the South. Yesterday, however, an errant copy of Lee’s battle plans had fallen into Union hands. Union General George B. McClellan, previously too cautious to engage Lee, now…
The war routinely causes confusion in Baptist congregations located in areas of the South where battles take place or where the United States army is otherwise present. Services are frequently disrupted, sometimes for months or years on end, as the war rages on. Today is a day of discord for the New Garden Baptist Church,…
At a time when the Confederacy’s fortunes seem to be on the upswing, this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder publishes a commentary on “Providence and this War.” You launch a loose plank on the swollen river, and from the bank watch patiently its course, as it drifts along–but you cannot guide it. It is…