By proclamation of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, many Baptists and other Christians today (a Friday) gather in their houses of worship to offer special prayer for the Confederacy, a nation now reeling from Union advances in Virginia and the deep South. Davis’s proclamation is as follows: To the People of the Confederate States of America:…
A recent letter from a North Carolina Baptist Confederate soldier is published in this week’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder. Writing from Gordonville, Virgina, the soldier (identifying himself only as D. W. C.) reflects upon his early weeks in the state where the Union is on the offensive. His observations include the adoration of Richmond women…
While the Confederate capital of Richmond is threatened by Union advances, the war in the Western theater is also going badly for the South. U.S. General Ulysses S. Grant, driving further southward, is now in Mississippi. The Confederates scramble to halt the Union advance, and today battle erupts in Farmington. Settled around the turn of…