As the year draws to the a close, the Confederate economy is on unsteady ground. Prior to the war, the combined economies of the southern states that now comprise the Confederacy would have ranked the South as the fourth richest nation in the world. The South’s monetary landscape today, however, is in the early stages…
Tennessee is home to many poor white Baptists, as Tennessee Baptist editor J. R. Graves is well aware. Acknowledging the circumstances of his readers, Graves often during the war years publishes, or re-publishes from other sources, advice on how to cope with hard times. U. S. blockades on southern trade routes portend a coming year…
The Frying Pan Baptist Church, located in northern Virginia, is situated along a critical road used for troop movement. Both Confederate and Union forces are alternatively dominate in the area during the war years. On the eve of the Battle of Manassas, the church yard had been used as a Confederate encampment. Today, the church…