Among Baptists of the South, Primitive Baptists are less likely to speak of the war and the Confederacy in church records and from pulpits. But Primitive Baptist attention to their faith heritage of separation of church and state does not prevent some from serving in the Confederacy. Amos Dickerson is a Primitive Baptist layman and…
“I do not recollect of ever having heard such a roar of musketry.” So declares Thomas Jonathan Jackson after the First Battle of Kernstown in Virgina. Jackson is more popularly known as General “Stonewall” Jackson. Jackson and his 3,000 Confederate soldiers today fight a Union force of more than twice their size in an opening…
The Confederate Congress has been meeting all week. Richmond’s First Baptist pastor, J. Lansing Burrows, is a fixture, offering the opening prayer of many of the congressional sessions. Meanwhile, from across the Atlantic Ocean, today’s edition of The Illustrated London Daily News offers commentary on the distant conflict. The important news has been received that…