Writing from Savannah, an anonymous correspondent to the Baptist press discusses Georgia Governor Joseph Brown. Having recently “formed the acquaintaince” of the governor, the letter-writer observes: The very active part he has taken in the present struggle has made him prominent among the public men of the Confederacy; yet I don’t think his appearance is…
These days, the capital of the Confederacy is abuzz with citizen efforts designed to support Confederate soldiers. As soldiers march in and out of the city of Richmond, women sew clothes for their nation’s defenders and various groups hold fund-raisers to help in the equipping and feeding of regiments. The Baptists of Richmond faithfully do…
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, near Campbellsville, Kentucky in Taylor County, today becomes a victim of the Civil War. The previous September, John Hunt Morgan, attempting to smuggle clothing to the Confederate Army, had been detained in the church building by the Union Taylor County Home Guards. Now a Confederate Cavalryman, today Morgan and a small…