Mississippi Baptist minister Mark P. Lowrey organizes the 32nd Mississippi regiment in north Mississippi and is elected Colonel of the regiment. This represents his second, and an unanticipated, stint of Confederate service. An excerpt from Lowrey’s autobiography speaks of his joining the army for the second time, as well as the days following: I had…
Prayer and God will save the honor of the South. Many Southern Baptists thus wish to believe. A pseudo-anonymous letter published in today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder reiterates this certainty of thought. Mr. Lincoln very complacently strokes his royal beard and puffs his Havana with a peculiar grace, for he says, with an air of…
The trend of Baptist congregations in southern cities donating church bells to be cast into Confederate cannons is growing. Today’s Richmond Dispatch announces: Patriotic Example. – The congregation of the Second Baptist Church in this city have set an example that may challenge emulation, but for self-sacrificing patriotism cannot be excelled. They met not long…