In the South, the Virginia city of Fredericksburg is now living in the early days of what will prove to be a four month Union occupation. While the scene is peaceful on the surface, tension mingles with joy. White citizens are on edge, while liberated slaves receive food provisions from the U.S. commissary, the best…
“Young Brother Singleton,” identified as a theology student at Mercer University, today gives “an interesting discourse” to the congregation at Bethesda Baptist Church in Greene County, Georgia. He is sponsored, one would surmise, by Pastor Henry Holcomb Tucker, who doubles as university professor of metaphysics and belles-lettres. Besides a letter granted to member Sarah Jones,…
Recent Confederate battlefield reversals, in addition to President Jefferson Davis’ declaration of martial law in Richmond, have led some Southerners to grumble about military and political leadership. Southern Baptist newspaper editors, however, are determined to clamp down on dissent. Christians, they believe, have no right to question the leaders of God’s chosen nation. An editorial,…