Today’s North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder demonstrates solidarity with other white Southern Christians in reprinting a Confederate Presbyterian’s helpful suggestion for the Confederate States of America: “Let our Confederacy Call upon God.” We are in the very crisis of the war. The present campaign seems to be ours, but the enemy is raising a new…
This week, against Southern jubilation over the victory in the Second Battle of Bull Run, Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptist’s Christian Index, offers a summation of the second annual session of the Confederate Congress, currently in the third week (the session will not conclude until October) in Richmond, the nation’s capital. Many important bills…
Samuel Pearce Richards (1824-1910) is a member of Atlanta’s Second Baptist Church and an Atlanta bookseller that, having “no ambition to acquire military renown and glory,” has managed to avoid service in the Confederate Army. The former Unionist maintains a home front diary during the war, and today, amidst noting family affairs, worries that he…