Although the Union is securely in control of Missouri, bands of rebel guerrillas yet cause problems for the U.S. military. Today the general in charge of the Northwest Missouri district issues a report of recent rebel activity. One of the prominent culprits fingered is a Baptist preacher. HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI, Saint Joseph, Mo.,…
White Baptists of the Confederacy share many of the same war-related convictions as do white southern Christians of other denominations. At a time when southerners are reeling from a string of battlefield setbacks, this week’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder reprints a brief commentary, originally appearing in a Presbyterian paper, regarding differences between South and North:…
While Southern Baptist army missionary A. E. Dickinson argues that Confederate Army camp life offers an opportunity to complete the Christian evangelization of Southern states, an anonymous Southern Baptist professor, utilizing flowery language not uncommon of the day, disagrees: An appeal to the soldiers of the Confederate States, by an old instructor, many of whose…