Newlyweds Anderson and Dora Richards Miller today arrive in Arkansas, seeking to escape the travails of war. Having moved from New Orleans, Arkansas is a new experience for Dora. Perhaps an Episcopalian (the church in which the couple was married), Dora in her diary describes the day and days following, including observations of religious life…
In much public Baptist discourse in the South, the biblical language of God’s will and Kingdom is superimposed upon the Confederate States of America — literally. Georgia Baptist’s Christian Index editor Samuel Boykin this week, generously intermingling the cause of Christ and Confederate patriotism, offers a vivid example of such dual imagery: Hark! The dread…
North Carolina Baptists learn of good news in the Confederate camps near Richmond, Virginia, in an article in this week’s Biblical Recorder: A few weeks since a number of Testaments were sent into a camp near [Richmond, Virginia]. The religious soldiers immediately determined to organize themselves into a Sunday School, and to invite their comrades…